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unusual facts about Kindersley—Lloydminster


Beechy, Saskatchewan

Represented Beechy on the federal level as the Member of Parliament for Kindersley—Lloydminster and was the Reform Party House Leader and then represented the area provincially, becoming the first leader of the Saskatchewan Party and Leader of the Opposition until 2003 when he relinquished the leadership.


Augustus Kenderdine

In 1908, the stories of the Barr Colonists and their Utopian settlement of Brittania, now known as Lloydminster, inspired Kenderdine to immigrate with his family to the Province of Saskatchewan in Canada, where he homesteaded near Lashburn.

CFNA-FM

The station was originally launched in 2003 by 912038 Alberta Ltd. as a rebroadcaster of CKLM in Lloydminster.

Christopher MacBurnie

His career started with an internship at Midwest Broadcasting (now Newcap Broadcasting) an independent radio and television broadcaster in Lloydminster, Alberta.

CKSA

CKSA-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Lloydminster, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada

Da Vinci Project

The da Vinci Project initially announced that it would fly first on October 2, 2004, launching from Kindersley, Saskatchewan.

Don S. Williams

Williams started his career in 1957, at the age of 19, when he moved to the Alberta/Saskatchewan border town of Lloydminster and began working at the new CKSA radio station.

History of Saskatoon

1903 saw an economic boom for Saskatoon with the encampment of Barr colonists on their way to the Brittania colony.

Jim Pankiw

Pankiw was defeated again in the 2006 federal election in the Battlefords-Lloydminster constituency by Conservative Gerry Ritz.

Julie Nolin

Since 1996, she has filled various roles at stations in Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Swift Current, Calgary, Saskatoon and Edmonton.

Peter Kindersley

Peter Kindersley (born 1941) was the co-founder of the publishing company Dorling Kindersley and ran it with Christopher Dorling from 1974, until he sold his family stake for £105m in 2000.

Robert Gavin Long

He represented Cut Knife-Lloydminster from 1978 to 1982 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.

Time in Saskatchewan

Swift Current and surrounding communities observed the same time as Lloydminster until April 30, 1972 when they changed to match the rest of the province.


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