DCHP-3

Little York

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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York, U.C., now Toronto, Ont.

This epithet was, like Muddy York, often used contemptuously in colonial times.

Quotations

1822
There is one hint, however, we wish to give Mr. W. Patton . . . which is, that although there may be many "Little" York's in the United States, we know of no place labled "Little York," in Canada, and beg that he will bear that little circumstance in his recollection, when he again addresses us.
1885
Father drove him twice to Little York one winter, a distance of over one hundred and fifty miles, accomplishing the trip both times inside of a week.
1955
The danger became too much for . . . Shaver, a member of the provincial parliament, who was on his way to attend a session in Little York.