Brockville

English

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.

Proper noun

Brockville

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

References

  1. ^ NZ Topo Map

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.