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

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4