Elgin may refer to:
Places
Canada
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Elgin County, Ontario
Elgin County is a county of the Canadian province of Ontario with a 2016 population of 50,069. Its population centres are St. Thomas, Aylmer, Port Stanley, Belmont, Dutton and West Lorne. The county seat is St. Thomas, which is separated from th ...
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Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day
North Buxton
North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.
Etymology
The word ''north'' is ...
and South Buxton, Chatham-Kent, Ontario
* Elgin, a village in
Rideau Lakes, Ontario
Rideau Lakes is a township located within Leeds and Grenville United Counties in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The township was incorporated on 1 January 1998 by amalgamating the former townships of North Crosby, South Crosby, Bastard, South Burgess ...
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Port Elgin, Ontario, Bruce County
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Elgin, Manitoba
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Elgin Parish, New Brunswick
Elgin is a civil parish in the interior of Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada, the only one of the county's parishes that does not border either the Bay of Fundy or the Petitcodiac River. It comprises two local service districts, both of w ...
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Elgin, New Brunswick
Elgin is a Canadian rural community in Albert County, New Brunswick, Albert County, New Brunswick.
It is situated in the western part of the county, approximately 14 kilometres south of Petitcodiac, New Brunswick, Petitcodiac around the inte ...
, a community in Elgin Parish
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Elgin, Nova Scotia
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Elgin, Quebec
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Elgin Street (Ottawa), a street in the Downtown core of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Port Elgin, New Brunswick
Port Elgin is a Canadian village in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. It is located near the Nova Scotia border at the mouth of the Gaspereaux River where it empties into the Northumberland Strait's Baie Verte.
History
The village was founded ...
Hong Kong
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Elgin Street, Hong Kong, a street in Central, Hong Kong
* Elgin Street, former name of
Haiphong Road
Haiphong Road is a road south of Kowloon Park, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. The road links Canton Road and Nathan Road.
History
It was initially named as Elgin Street but its name changed in 1909 to Haiphong, a city in Vietnam to avoid confusi ...
in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
New Zealand
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Elgin, New Zealand, a suburb of Gisborne
South Africa
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Elgin, Western Cape
Elgin is a large, lush area of land, circled by mountains, in the Overberg region of South Africa. This broad upland valley lies about 70 km southeast of Cape Town, just beyond the Hottentots Holland Mountains.
The Elgin region is centered ...
, a large valley famous for deciduous farming, which lies to the south-east of Cape Town
United Kingdom
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Elgin, Moray
Elgin (; sco, Ailgin; gd, Eilginn, ) is a town (former cathedral city) and formerly a Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland. It is the administrative and commercial centre for Moray. The town originated to the south of the River Lossie on the higher g ...
, the administrative and commercial centre for Moray, Scotland, from which other names derive
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Elgin railway station
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Elgin Crescent, a street in Notting Hill, London
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Elgin Street, Bacup, in Lancashire, one of the world's shortest streets
United States
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Elgin, Alabama
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Elgin, Arizona
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Elgin, Illinois
Elgin ( ) is a city in Cook and Kane counties in the northern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. Elgin is located northwest of Chicago, along the Fox River. As of the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 114,797, the seventh-large ...
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Elgin station (Illinois), a train station
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Elgin, Iowa
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Elgin, Kansas
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Elgin, Minnesota
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Elgin (Natchez, Mississippi), listed on the NRHP in Mississippi
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Elgin, Missouri
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Elgin, Nebraska
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Elgin, Nevada
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Elgin (Warrenton, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
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Elgin, North Dakota
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Elgin, Ohio
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Elgin, Oklahoma
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Elgin, Oregon
Elgin is a city in Union County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,711 at the 2010 census. The community is named after the '' Lady Elgin'', a ship lost on Lake Michigan.
The city is known for the Elgin Opera House, originally dedica ...
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Elgin, Pennsylvania
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Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina
Elgin is an incorporated town in Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States. Some portions of the town are in adjacent Richland County, South Carolina. It is located approximately northeast of the center of Columbia, the state's capital, and ...
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Elgin, Lancaster County, South Carolina
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Elgin, South Carolina (disambiguation)
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Elgin, Tennessee
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Elgin, Texas
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Elgin, Utah
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Elgin Township (disambiguation)
Constituencies and electoral districts
Canada
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Elgin (electoral district) (1935–1997), a federal electoral district in the province of Ontario
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Elgin (provincial electoral district), a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada, that was merged into the riding of Elgin-Middlesex
United Kingdom
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Elgin (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
Elgin was a burgh constituency that elected one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
After the Acts of Union 1707, Elgin, Banff, Cullen, Inverurie and Kintore formed the Elgin district of burghs, retu ...
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Elgin Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
Elgin Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. Until 1832, when Peterhead was added, the constituency comprised ...
, a District of Burghs constituency from 1708 to 1918
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Elginshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Elginshire, in Scotland, was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-th ...
, a county constituency from 1708 to 1832
People
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Elgin (name)
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Earl of Elgin or Lord Elgin, the title of several individuals
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Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (; 20 July 176614 November 1841) was a British nobleman, soldier, politician and diplomat, known primarily for the controversial procurement of marble sculptures (known as the Elgin Ma ...
(1766–1841), British diplomat
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James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, (20 July 181120 November 1863) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. He served as Governor of Jamaica (1842–1846), Governor General of the Province of Canada (1847–1 ...
(1811–1863), Canadian governor
Art, entertainment, and media
Art
* The
Elgin Marbles
The Elgin Marbles (), also known as the Parthenon Marbles ( el, Γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα, lit. "sculptures of the Parthenon"), are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sc ...
, Greek bas-reliefs housed at the British Museum
Literature
*The Elginists, an organization featured in Elly Griffiths'
Ruth Galloway novel ''A Room Full of Bones'' (2012) that describes itself as "dedicated to the return of cultural artefacts to their countries of origin", including the Elgin Marbles
Music
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''Elgin'' (album), a 2011 album by American R&B singer and songwriter Ginuwine
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The Elgins
The Elgins were an American vocal group on the Motown label, active from the late 1950s to 1967. Their most successful record was " Heaven Must Have Sent You", written and produced by the Holland–Dozier–Holland team, which was a hit in the ...
, a Motown group active from 1962 to 1967
* "The Elgins", an early name used by
The Temptations
The Temptations are an American vocal group from Detroit, Michigan, who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s. The group's work with producer Norman Whitfield, beginning with the Top 1 ...
in their pre-David Ruffin era
Brands and enterprises
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Elgin (automobile), manufactured by Elgin Motor Car Corporation (1916–1923) and Elgin Motors, Inc. (1923–1924)
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Elgin, Ladbroke Grove, a public house in Ladbroke Grove, London
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The Elgin, Darjeeling, the summer residence of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar, converted to a hotel
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Elgin National Watch Company
The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. The company sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin.
For nearly 100 years, the company's manufacturing ...
(1864–1968), a US watch company that sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin
* Elgin tablets, a name for a
tablet
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Glen Elgin, a single malt whisky from Speyside
Other uses
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Elgin Formation, a geologic formation in Minnesota, United States
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Elgin Park Secondary School, a high school in Surrey, British Columbia
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Elgin–Franklin fields in the North Sea
See also
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Eglin (disambiguation)
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Elgin Academy (disambiguation)
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Elgin High School (disambiguation)
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Elgin Museum (disambiguation)
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Elgin Theatre (disambiguation)
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Elginia
''Elginia'' is an extinct genus of pareiasaurid known from the Late Permian of Scotland and China. It was named for the area around Elgin in Scotland, which has yielded many fossils referred to as the Elgin Reptiles.
Discovery
The type s ...
'', a turtle-like parareptile of the Late Permian period
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Lady Elgin (disambiguation)
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