This monument is situated where the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan meet the state of North Dakota. The Manitoba portion is in the Municipality of Two Borders but the site is not accessible by road from Manitoba. Instead, one must drive three miles west on Highway 251 in Saskatchewan, then south two miles, then east three miles, and finally one mile south to the Canada-US border.
There, one finds a stone marker denoting the the international boundary and a monument prepared in 1969 by commissioners of the International Boundary Commission (A. Frederick Lambert for Canada, Richard L. Herman for the United States) and commissioners of the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Boundary Commission (R. Thistlethwaite for Canada, Edward Gauer for Manitoba, W. M. Schwartz for Saskatchewan).
The international-interprovincial monument was unveiled at a ceremony on 25 June 1970 attended by Manitoba Premier Edward Schreyer and Saskatchewan Minister of Natural Resources J. Ross Barrie, along with Dan Mrsich as a representative of the Canadian federal government, and Richard L. Herman as a representative of the American government.
US-Canada marker and international interprovincial boundary monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
US-Canada boundary marker 670A (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
International interprovincial boundary monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N48.99957, W101.36200
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Boundary Cairn (International Peace Garden)
“Monument dedicated to boundary surveys,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 June 1970, page 51.
Harvests of Time: History of the R.M. of Edward by R.M. of Edward History Book Committee, 1983, page 16.
International Boundary Commission
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 January 2024
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