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Brockville

American  
[brok-vil] / ˈbrɒk vɪl /

noun

  1. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.


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A similar thing happened four years later with Simmonds, who had been cut after a tryout with the OHL’s Mississauga Ice Dogs and was playing Junior A hockey in Brockville.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022

Brockville General Hospital in Prescott, near the crash, said it received five patients who all required critical care and said one other patient was sent to a hospital in Kingston, Ontario, by air ambulance.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2018

The firm appears to have transferred control of Brockville to a different Panama-based shell in 2018, but there is no indication in those files or public records that Krivonogikh ever relinquished ownership.

From Washington Post

Next thing Louisiana knew, Dr. & Mrs. Smith had turned up at Brockville, Ont., and State and local authorities were tumbling over themselves for the glory of bringing back the fugitives.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole region of country from Belleville, on the west, to Brockville, on the east, has very little more business or commercial connection with Toronto than the more eastern parts of the Province.

From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by Putnam, J. Harold

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