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Originally Posted by niwell
I've always heard Townie in Southern Ontario / GTA to refer to "original" residents before the area was absorbed into the urban sprawl. Usually more working class / blue collar who would frequent the original dive bars and old shops in the area. My friends from places like Aurora and Newmarket use the term a lot
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That’s how people in Peterborough used that word too. Actually there was even a sharper class connotation to it, usually signalling a local member of the underclass:
E.g. “I hired some townie to clean the junk out of my garage”