Big Smoke

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Big Smoke can refer to:

• The Big Smoke, a name applied to various cities, including:
  • Belfast
  • Dublin
  • London, labelled as such since the late 19th century.
  • Manchester, during the industrial revolution.
  • 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.
  • Sydney
  • Toronto
  • 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").

• a character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Great Smog of 1952, air pollution in London

[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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