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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Robert Hale. ISBN 0-7091-5731-2. Ommer, Rosemary E. (1991). From Outpost to Outport. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 13–14. ISBN 0-7735-0730-2. Archived...
- trade pla**** a major role in the city's growth, but for many years the outport of Gl****on Dock, downstream, has been the main shipping facility. Lancaster...
- 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...
- accent colours were typically found on more substantial homes. In the outports, white was still the most common house colour, often with a secondary trim...