Carleton Place, Ontario
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Carleton Place (2005 population 9,600) is a town in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Lanark, about one half-hour west of Ottawa on the southern branch of the Trans-Canada Highway. It is located at the crossroads of Highway 15 and Highway 7, midway between the town of Smiths Falls and the nation's capital, Ottawa.
Carleton Place, originally known as Morphy's Falls, was chosen as a mill site by Edmond Morphy in 1819. It is located on the Mississippi River, a tributary of the Ottawa River. It became a village in 1870, and a town in 1890. The name later given to the settlement was actually "Carlton Place" after the street in Glasgow, but the spelling was altered in 1829.
Both textile and lumber mills flourished here, but none are still operating. The Findlay Foundry operated in Carleton Place from the 1860's to 1974, making cast iron cookware and woodstoves. Some of the designs created by this company are still being made by another company. Today, the remaining mill buildings house condominiums and "high-tech" industry.
People born in Carleton Place include:
- Roy Brown, credited with shooting down the Red Baron
- Leslie McFarlane, who wrote many of the original Hardy Boys books under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon
According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:
- Population: 9,083
- % Change (1996-2001): 7.1
- Dwellings: 3,504
- Area (sq. km.): 8.83
- Density (persons per sq. km.): 1,028.2
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| West: Beckwith |
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East: Beckwith |
| South: Beckwith |
See also
External links
- town web site (http://www.town.carleton-place.on.ca/home.htm)