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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.

Peterborough [ˈpiːtəbərə -brə]
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1. (Placename) a city in central England, in Peterborough unitary authority, N Cambridgeshire on the River Nene: industrial centre; under development as a new town since 1968. Pop.: 134 788 (1991 est.).
2. (Placename) a unitary authority in central England, in Cambridgeshire. Pop.: 156 060 (2001). Area: 402 sq. km (155 sq. miles)
3. (Placename) Soke of. a former administrative unit of E central England, generally considered part of Northamptonshire or Huntingdonshire: absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974
4. (Placename) a city in SE Canada, in SE Ontario: manufacturing centre. Pop.: 68 371 (1991)
5. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) a traditional type of wooden canoe formerly made in Peterborough, SE Ontario


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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.
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.
At Lake Linderman I had one canoe, very good Peterborough canoe.
 
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