Carleton Place

Carleton Place is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in Lanark County, around 46 kilometers 29 mi west of downtown Ottawa. It is situated at the junction of Highway 15 and Highway 7, somewhere between the towns of Perth, Almonte, Smiths Falls, and the country's capital, Ottawa. The Mississippi River, a tributary of the Ottawa River courses through the town. Mississippi Lake is only upstream by pontoon, and also via auto. The town is arranged on the edge of an expansive limestone plain, only south of the edge of the Canadian Shield in the deciduous woodland ecoregion of North America. Carleton Place was first settled by Europeans when British experts provoked movement to Lanark County in the mid nineteenth century.

The Morphy and Moore families were among the first to arrive. Edmond Morphy picked the site in 1819 when he understood there was potential in the territory cascade. He constructed a plant there and was the first of numerous such material and timber ventures to live in the region. The settlement was then known as Morphy's Falls. In 1829, the zone was renamed Carleton Place, after a road in Glasgow, Scotland, when a mail station was built. It turned into a town in 1870, and a town in 1890. The people group's financial development was empowered by the development of the Brockville and Ottawa Railway later in the century.