outport†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Nfld

any port other than St. John's, especially one of the many small, isolated fishing villages on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Quotations

1820

Almost every fifth fisherman is what is termed a 'Planter,' particularly in the outports of the Island.

1918

. . . men from far-away outports had been . . . collecting at the capital. . . .

1966

When I was a boy growing up in a Newfoundland outport, we had no sources of entertainment from the outside world. . . .

2n. — Maritimes

a small coastal fishing village.

1835

Now Halifax is . . . fed by the outports, and they begin to have enough to do to feed themselves--it must lam to live without em.

1865

In the outports there has been little work except what was afforded by means of the Road Grant of 1st Session.

1953

Run the whole thing from an outport, where I don't have much taxes to pay; place where I can refit my vessels at my own wharf, on my own slips. . . .