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| 1. | Sir James M(atthew), 1860–1937, Scottish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. |
| 2. | a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto. 38,423. |
| Bar·rie (bār'ē) A city of southern Ontario, Canada, on Lake Simcoe north-northwest of Toronto. It is a manufacturing center and summer resort. Population: 128,000. |
| Barrie, Sir J (ames) British writer whose whimsical and fantastic works include the play Peter Pan (1904). |
Barrie
city, seat (1837) of Simcoe county, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies along Kempenfelt Bay, an arm of Lake Simcoe, 55 miles (90 km) north-northwest of Toronto. In 1812 a storehouse was probably built on the site, which during the War of 1812 was the landing and starting point of the Nine-Mile-Portage (a military supply route to the upper Great Lakes). A permanent settlement was established in 1828, named for Commodore Robert Barrie, commander of a naval squadron at Kingston, Ontario. The early economy was based on agriculture and lumbering. Allandale village to the south was annexed in 1897.
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