Definition of Outports. Meaning of Outports. Synonyms of Outports

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Definition of Outports

Outport
Outport Out"port`, n. A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Outports from wikipedia

- has now been adopted for those on the mainland area of Labrador as well. Outports are some of the oldest European settlements in Canada. John Cabot visited...
- An outport is any port considered secondary to a main port (including a provincial one as opposed to a capital one), and often (especially) a small port...
- Robinson, Cyril (1965). "Nurse Bennett of the Outports". W****end Magazine. Robinson, Cyril (1965). "Nurse Bennett of The Outports". W****end Magazine....
- Verte and Buchans also contributed to the movement of people away from the outports. World War II also had a part to play when air force bases were built at...
- ethnomusicologist Kenneth Pea****'s 1965 3-volume Songs of the Newfoundland Outports as a resource for songs that they adapted into a new rock-based sound called...
- 1997, pp. 449–450. Hamilton, Lawrence C.; Butler, M. J. (January 2001). "Outport adaptations: Social indicators through Newfoundland's Cod crisis". Human...
- Labrador, Canada and races over scenic coastal roads and through towns and outports. The event covers about 2,000 km (1,200 mi) in September of each year on...
- post-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador. Many of the remaining small rural outports were hit by the 1992 cod moratorium. Loss of an important source of income...
- merchants made the most of it, with the city becoming one of the two leading outports in all of England by the middle of the 18th century. Bristol was the slave...
- which were Irish. English was transmitted in the families in towns and outports, infused every summer with folk speech from England and Ireland. The nineteenth...