Brockville

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in eastern Ontario, Canada.
  2. 2
    An outer suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

Etymology

From the surname Brock + -ville. *In Ontario, named after Isaac Brock, major general and temporary administrator of the province of Upper Canada. Formerly named Elizabethtown, then a village. *In Dunedin, named after settler Frederick Brock-Hollinshead.

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