42 Bridge St
Carleton Place, Ontario
K7C 2V8

Ontario Tourism Region : Ontario's Highlands

Phone : (613) 257-3324
Outside Web Page : http://town.carleton-place.on.ca/tourism.htm
Your Host(s) : Canada Post Carleton Place

Description From Owner:

• Pop. 8,296. In Beckwith & Ramsay Ts., Lanark C., on the Mississippi R. and Hwys 7 & 15, and C. Rd. 29, 45 km. SW of Ottawa.
• Founded in 1818 by Edmond Morphy and his three sons from Tipperary, Ireland, the place was first known as Morphy's Falls.
• In 1824, established Protestant settlers jealous of government assistance to new Irish Catholic immigrants, were involved in riots in which one immigrant was killed, several were injured, and a number of buildings were destroyed or damaged.
• The riots, known as The Ballygiblin Riots, were put down by Col.James Fitzgibbon. In 1830 the community was named Carleton Place after a square in Glasgow, Scotland.
• Capt. A. Roy Brown (1893-1944) of Carleton Place is credited with shooting down Germany's First World War ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen in 1918. Richthofen, nicknamed The Red Baron, had shot down 80 allied planes.
• From Ontario Place Names 2007 David E. Scott Ph. 866 471 4123 or 905 680 7884

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