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From: "Adam Flinton"
"Doug Bryce" wrote in message
news:3e4055b4.8313402{at}news.barkto.com...
> ......btw, I forgot the other night when we were talking
> about place names that we share -- we also have Grimsby & Newcastle.
> Grimsby is about 20 minutes drive, depending on the route that I take
> - Newcastle about 2 1/2 hours. We used to have 2 Yorks, one a *very
> little* place within 20 minutes of here, the other one got swallowed
> up when the city of Toronto was almagamated with some of its
> surrounding municipalities. I'm sure there's more - can't think of
> them offhand.
>
Does Canada follow the US model of putting new in front of just about every
decent place name e.g. York > New York vs say Paris (Texas) > Paris
Adam
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