Canadian border towns could offer lessons for ND development

By Michael Standaert, North Dakota News Cooperative

The towns of Langdon in northeastern North Dakota and Morden in southern Manitoba province were once mirror images of each other.

In the 1950s they each had populations hovering around 1,800 people. These prairie communities separated by an international border and around 40 miles of farmland were both incorporated in the 1880s as railroads expande…