Rat Portage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A former town in northern Ontario, Canada, near the border with Manitoba; modern Kenora.

Word forms

Rat Portage

Etymology

Named after the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) fur trading post: rat referred to muskrats.

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