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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking
I meant that quite literally, not with any association to the university. To me Dundas has always felt like it could be a town totally separate from the larger urban area it belongs to in reality.
Townish if that is preferable.
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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, and I've even heard it in Toronto's west end to refer to the pre-gentrification population.
It works for Dundas to me - I have a couple friends from there and it sounds like many of the people they went to High School with never moved and have every intention of staying there for the rest of their lives.