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Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the town in which the seat of municipal government is located.

See: county town

Quotations

1827

It deserves to be noticed that not less than thirteen tavern licenses were granted at Perth (the district town), for this place and its neighborhood, at the last meeting of the Quarter Sessions.

1841

We have received the first number of the "Ottawa Advocate," a paper published at Aylmer, the intended District Town of the New District of Sydenham.