LIVING N eighbourhood on the Move
CARLETON PLACE WORDS AND PHOTOS BY TED SIMPSON
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et along the banks of Canada's mighty Mississippi River, highlighted by a roaring waterfall and historical architecture, the quiet town of Carleton Place sits mostly undiscovered by the rest of the world. While the town hasn’t quite taken off with Ottawa’s day-trippers the same as the nearby communities of Almonte and Perth, there’s a lot to be found in Carleton Place and this might be your chance to gain some hipster cred by saying you knew about it before it was cool.
THEN The site of Carleton Place was first settled in the early 1800s, when the British government encouraged European immigration to Lanark County. The Morphy family were the first to see the potential power in the waterfall and fast-moving rapids of the Mississippi River (an offshoot of the Ottawa River), and they established the settlement of Morphy’s Falls in 1819. Like most early villages in the Ottawa area, it was built up around a mill that powered textile and lumber industries.
