Lloydminster, AB/SK was founded about 100 years ago, a few years before the Alberta-Saskachewan boundary was surveyed. When the boundary was surveyed, they found that it ran right through the middle of town. So for a while, there were two adjacent towns, roughly equal in size, named Lloydminster.
But in 1930, the two provinces simultaneously passed the Lloydminster Municipal Amalgamation Act which combined the two towns into a single city which would be more-or-less jointly owned by both provinces. Here is the text of the Alberta version of the act.
OK, so now we move across to the Sask/Manitoba boundary. Along that boundary is the mining town of Flin Flon, over 90% of which lies in Manitoba. There seems to be a 1952 law passed by Saskachewan called the Flin Flon Extension of Boundaries Act. Unfortunately, the text of that act is not on-line, or at least doesn’t come up on Google. Nor can I find any page that describes what the act does or says whether Manitoba passed a similar act at the same time.
So my question is, what exactly is the legal status of Flin Flon? Is it another single, cross-border city like Lloydminster or something else?
Here is the Flin Flon city page. It mentions being on the border, but everything else seems to point to it being ‘property’ of Manitoba. To be honest, I’ve never heard of it refered to as anything but a city in Manitoba. Perhaps the act was Saskatechwan giving up its share of the town.
I’ve looked at Flin Flon’s homepage, I’ve looked at various on-line maps such as MapQuest, but none of them are really telling me what I want to know.
Anyway, another clue is that both Flin Flon MB and Lloydminster AB are treated as part of Sask. for various purposes. For instance, the Univ. of Sask. treats Flin Flon residents the same as other Sask residents for admissions purposes.
PS The more I look at those on-line mapping systems, the less respect I have for them. One of them is so out of it that they show Flin Flon in SK but not in MB! MapQuest itself is not too bad, but I think they have Flin Flon SK about a km away from where it actually is. If you look at the map under the right expansion, you will see that there’s a few city streets south of the border in Sask. As far as I can tell, that’s Flin Flon SK. MapQuest shows the place about a km south of there.
All of my life I have known it to be referred to as Flin Flon, Manitoba. My brother in law is from there, I’ll make a point to ask him at my first chance.
My brother lives in Lloydminster, AB, but his mail is addressed to Lloydminster, SK and there is a SK area code for his phone number.
Back around1977/78 , there was a beer/liquor strike in Manitoba. I was working at Snow Lake,Manitoba and had to drive several humdred miles to get to Creighton, Saskatchewan, right next to Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Back around1977/78 , there was a beer/liquor strike in Manitoba. I was working at Snow Lake,Manitoba and had to drive several humdred miles to get to Creighton, Saskatchewan, right next to Flin Flon, Manitoba.
According to Brother In Law, Flin Flon is Manitoba, and the area code is 204. I don’t know how much help that is to you, but add it to your pile of knowledge of it.
For most of them no. Someone once posted somewhere (can’t remember where) that Bluefield VA and Bluefield WV share a single government. I haven’t seen anything on the net about this, so I’m not sure if it’s true or not.
As far as grienspace’s quote, that’s not what I’m looking for. Yes, “parts of the community are both in Manitoba and Saskatchewan”, but the community is not a legal entity. I’m trying to find out if the city is in both provinces. City here being defined by the city limits, not just the developed area.
And if they don’t, then why does Sask treat Flin Flon as part of the province for certain purposes? And does MB reciprocate in some way?