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canton

In France, an administrative district, a subdivision of the arrondissement; in Switzerland, one of the 23 subdivisions forming the Confederation.

Canton

City and administrative headquarters of Stark County, northeast Ohio, USA, on Nimishillen Creek, 84 km/52 mi southeast of Cleveland; population (2000) 80,800. The city is a major producer of metal alloys and steel. Other manufactures include metalworking presses, roller bearings, brick, and rubber gloves. It is also a trade centre for the surrounding dairy and poultry farming region.

Canton was laid out in 1805 and incorporated as a city in 1854. It is the site of Malone College (1892) and Walsh College (1958), and was the home of President William McKinley, who is buried here. The city now houses the National Professional Football Hall of Fame.



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The latter had to take their peltries to Canton, which, however, was a mere receiving mart, from whence they had to be distributed over the interior of the empire and sent to the northern parts, where there was the chief consumption.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
In Switzerland, where the Union is so very slight, each canton is obliged to allow to merchandises a passage through its jurisdiction into other cantons, without an augmentation of the tolls.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
The island is situated at the mouth of the Canton River, and is separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao, on the opposite coast.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
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