would you accept a quinticounty city
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> As a new member I'm glad I checked the group archives before
I posted this. I
> see that you have discussed Lloydminster, ABSK, as recently
as May.
>
> For a week beginning this Saturday, Lloydminster will be
celebrating the
> centennial of its settlement in 1903. That was two years before
the provinces
> of Saskatchewan and Alberta were created out of the
Northwest Territories in
> 1905, so they had no idea that they would become a boundary
city.
>
> The unique thing about Lloydminster is that the two separate
municipalities were
> "amalgamated" into one by Orders in Council passed jointly by
the two provinces
> in 1930. Thus, there is only one mayor, one council, one city
government,
> jointly chartered by both provinces.
>
> Does anyone know of any other interjurisdictional municipality
anywhere else on
> earth?
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA