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Churchill

Town in the province of Manitoba, Canada, situated on Hudson Bay; population (1991) 1,143. Although the port is ice-free only three months a year, Churchill handles about 500,000 tonnes of grain annually, as well as fuel oil and bulk cargo. It is a major centre for Arctic research, health programmes, and education. The Hudson's Bay Company established a post here and named it for Lord Churchill (later 1st duke of Marlborough).

There is a modern airport here. Railway and harbour facilities were completed in 1931. A military base was established in World War II, and it continued as a rocket-launching site until the early 1960s.
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Captain Weston was a general favourite; and when the chances of his military life had introduced him to Miss Churchill, of a great Yorkshire family, and Miss Churchill fell in love with him, nobody was surprized, except her brother and his wife, who had never seen him, and who were full of pride and importance, which the connexion would offend.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
Thou may'st remember each bright Churchill of the galaxy, and all the toasts of the Kit-cat.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
, when he was impeached for peculation, as were a great number of other honest gentlemen of those days; and Walpole Crawley was, as need scarcely be said, son of John Churchill Crawley, named after the celebrated military commander of the reign of Queen Anne.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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