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...
- 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...
- fisherman who refuses to leave the isolated Newfoundland and Labrador outport town of Sweetland when the provincial government launches a resettlement...
- 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...
- English are often stereotyped as uneducated fishermen from Newfoundland outports. Skeets are characterised as rough around the edges, unintelligent, poorly...
- Newfoundland. It provided law enforcement and other government services to outports for 15 years. It existed from 1935 to 1949, at which point it was merged...
- and Hampshire. Greenspond is one of the oldest continuously inhabited outports in Newfoundland, having been settled in the 1690s. In the first 100 years...
- communities lack road and rail but have water access, such as the Newfoundland outports, and those that have road access part of the year on ice roads, or can...