Lloydminster, AB to Regina, SK

Lloydminster is Canada's Border City - uniquely ONE municipality in TWO provinces.  The controversial Border Markers mark the 110th meridian of longitude (Alberta on left, Saskatchewan to the right).  Growing up in Lloydminster, this all seemed normal, but folks from out of town often marvel at how the whole thing works.

Border Markers - Lloydminster

Lloydminster is proud to be a Heavy Oil community.  There have been many innovations developed locally which are now used world wide.  For example, produced sand techniques have been implemented by Lloydminsterites from the North Sea to Yemen.

Saskatchewan, of course, is known for its agriculture.  Below we see grain elevators in North Battleford, SK one old, one new.

Then there is the incredible scenery which can bring a tear to a true prairie boy's eye.

The Borden Bridge (near Borden, SK). 
I wrote my initials here when I was 9 years old
(See lower left :))

A street in Saskatoon

My great-grandparents, William and Margaret Hunter, were part of the Temperance Colony Society which  established Saskatoon in 1883.  My great-grandmother was acknowledged in the early days as "the first white woman to live in Saskatoon".  She was a featured guest at the 50th Anniversay in 1933.
My grandmother was the youngest of five girls in the family (twin boys came later) and she arrived in Saskatoon when she was 8 months old.  She started her schooling at the Little Stone School which still exists (barely) on the grounds of the University of Saskatchewan.  My great-grandfather's first homestead was not far away - where the U of S farm is today.  In 1892, the family moved 12 miles down river where elements of the family still reside today, six generations on.

The Little Stone School - 2010