Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: More about the Lloydminster Border Marker Towers
Date: May 31, 2003 @ 04:19
Author: Doug Murray (Doug Murray <doug@dougmurrayproductions.com>)
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Here's a site that is takes you right to the border in Lloydminister:
http://albertaroads.homestead.com/hwy16e5.html



On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 06:42 PM, acroorca2002 wrote:

> http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/lloyd.html
> makes it official & clear i think
> that the towers were only fanciful depictions of the actual border
> which evidently does indeed run down the middle of the road
>
> both knuckleheaded ideas if you ask me
> & good insticts on jespers part to sniff them out
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray
> <doug@d...> wrote:
> >
> > This news article says they're gone:
> >
> > http://www.marnieko.com/towers.htm%c2%a0 (dated Sept 10, 2001)
> >
> > But I would think that they are back if the Lloydminster city site
> has
> > them on their website.
> >
> > This got me thinking about Jesper's question as to the actual
> location
> > of the border.  I doubt Alberta would build a highway right on
> the
> > border.  My thinking is that the border should be on the east
> side of
> > the highway.  Of course, as our border expeditions have
> shown, borders
> > don't follow logic!
> >
> > Doug
>
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