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Dufferin


Dufferin


Dufferin, Dyffryn or Duffryn may refer to:

Places

In Burma

  • Fort Dufferin, the British name for Mandalay Palace during their colonial rule

In Canada

British Columbia

  • Dufferin Island,
  • Dufferin, neighbourhood of the city of Kamloops, from 1971 to 1973 a separate municipality

Manitoba

  • Dufferin (Manitoba provincial electoral district)
  • Fort Dufferin, a National Historic Site
  • Rural Municipality of Dufferin

New Brunswick

  • Dufferin Parish, a civil parish east of St. Stephen, New Brunswick
  • Dufferin Hotel, a former hotel in Saint John, New Brunswick

Nova Scotia

  • Port Dufferin, a small community near Halifax

Ontario

  • Dufferin Bridge, a community in Magnetawan
  • Dufferin County
  • Dufferin (federal electoral district), a federal electoral district in Ontario, abolished in 1924
  • Dufferin Islands, a group of man-made islands near Niagara Falls
  • Dufferin Street in Toronto
    • Dufferin (TTC), a subway station on the street

Quebec

  • Terrasse Dufferin, a broad terrace wrapping around much of old Quebec City

Saskatchewan

  • Rural Municipality of Dufferin No. 190, Saskatchewan

In the United Kingdom

Northern Ireland

  • Dufferin (barony), County Down

Wales

Dyffryn is Welsh for 'valley'.

  • Duffryn, a housing estate in Newport
  • Dyffryn, Bridgend
  • Dyffryn Cennen, Carmarthenshire
  • Dyffryn, Ceredigion
  • Dyffryn, Pembrokeshire
  • Dyffryn, Vale of Glamorgan
    • Dyffryn Gardens
  • Dyffryn Cellwen, Neath Port Talbot
  • Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot

People

  • Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, title in the Peerage of Ireland
  • Dufferin Roblin (1917–2010), Canadian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba
  • Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), known as Lord Dufferin, Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India

Bridges

  • Dufferin Street bridges in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Malviya Bridge over the Ganges at Varanasi, India, originally named the Dufferin Bridge.

Ships

  • HMIS Dufferin, a Royal Indian Marine ship active in World War I
  • Training Ship Dufferin, a training ship based in Mumbai, renamed Training Ship Chanakya


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