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Isaac Montgomery Barr - 1902. Isaac Montgomery Barr (March 2, 1847 – January 18, 1937) was an Anglican clergyman and promoter of British colonial settlement schemes, most notably the Barr Colony which became Lloydminster and District in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada.
They asked Lloyd to take over leadership of the colony. [ 7 ] and eventually named their settlement "Lloydminster" in his honour. Lloyd and his family remained with the settlement for a few years, then moved to Prince Albert , Saskatchewan, and became principal of Emmanuel College (1908–1916) where he helped students erect Rugby Chapel .
Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta [3] and Saskatchewan. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administration.
The Mannville Group reaches a thickness of 145 feet (40 m) in its type locality. It occurs in the sub-surface in central Alberta, extending east-west from Edmonton to Lloydminster and north-south from the Deep Basin to the United States border. It is present in the sub-surface in west-central and southern Saskatchewan.
Frenchman Butte is a butte located 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Lloydminster, is named after a Frenchman who was killed there by Indians in the 19th century. [1] It is not known how or why this man was murdered.
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, [1] which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their metropole (or "mother country"). [2]
The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...
Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing occupation of or control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of cultivation, exploitation, trade and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by, but distinct from, imperialism, mercantilism, or colonialism.