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metropolitan town Obs. 
the town designated as the seat of the district courts and other offices of municipal government in each of the districts of Canada West.
- 1853 (1959) Belleville had just been incorporated as the metropolitan town of the Victoria District, and my husband presided as Sheriff in the first court ever held in the place.
- 1853 (1959) Belleville had just been incorporated as the metropolitan town of the Victoria District, and my husband presided as Sheriff in the first court ever held in the place.