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 Canucks.Canvas City (A). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Canvas
 
means cloth made of hemp. To canvas a subject is to strain it through a hemp strainer, to sift it; and to canvass a borough is to sift the votes. (Latin, can’nabis, hemp.)   1
 


 Canucks.Canvas City (A). 

 
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