Posted Sep 16, 2019, 2:53 AM
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Originally Posted by megadude
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I was also surprised by how many towns start with "Port". When I hear Port I think of the Great Lakes like Port Hope, Port Credit, Port Dover, Port Stanley or BC like Port Alberini or Port Coquitlam. A bunch of Port names in ON and BC. Places that are or were important commercial shipping hubs on massive waterways and bodies of water. I don't picture tiny villages on Muskoka lakes being "ports" even if there were on a very micro scale over a hundred years ago for native and perhaps some colonial trade.
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Port Perry (Trent-Severn) and Westport (Rideau) come to mind.
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