Big Smoke
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Big Smoke can refer to:
- The Big Smoke, a name applied to various cities, including:
- Belfast
- London, because of its smog (though this has declined, and the name with it)
- Melbourne, labelled as such in the late 19th century during the industrial boom following the Victorian gold rush, often by provincial Victorians and by people from other parts of Australia.
- Toronto
- Dublin
- Vancouver, British Columbia because of its occasional heavy fogs and in the past, millsmoke ("smoke" in the old trade language there meant "fog" and "cloud").
[edit] Early usage
William Haygarth, writing about 1840s New South Wales, Australia says that Sydney was referred to as the 'big smoke' by Aboriginal people. [1].
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