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Peterborough

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Pe·ter·bor·ough  (ptr-bûr, -br-, -br)
1. A city of southeast Ontario, Canada, northeast of Toronto. Settled in the 1820s as a lumbering town, it is now an industrial center and railroad junction. Population: 74,900.
2. A municipal borough of east-central England east of Leicester. Catherine of Aragon is buried in the cathedral here. Population: 136,000.


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On the 23rd he was going to a friend near Peterborough, in the same situation as himself, and they were to receive ordination in the course of the Christmas week.
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On the other hand, it was told that when Freda, the dancer, arrived from over the passes in a Peterborough canoe in the midst of a drive of mush-ice on the Yukon, and when she offered a thousand dollars for ten sacks and could find no sellers, he sent the flour to her as a present without ever seeing her.
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At Lake Linderman I had one canoe, very good Peterborough canoe.
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