I am sorry to transmit to Your Lordship the disagreeable account of a disagreeable Business, some time in the Beginning of this Month, upon news of the Rebel Army approaching, General Carleton set out for Montreal in great Haste ; the 7th instant the Rebels landed in the Woods near St. John's, and beat back to their Boats by a Party of Savages incamped at that Place ; in this Action the Savages behaved with great Spirit and Resolution, and had they remained firm to our Interests, probably the Province would have been safe for this Year, but finding the Canadians in General averse to the taking up Arms for the Defence of their Country, they withdrew, and made their Peace.

Carleton Place is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in Lanark County, about west of downtown Ottawa.

In 1829, the area was renamed Carleton Place, after a street in Glasgow, Scotland, when a post office was constructed.

The river led to the development of the Ottawa Valley Canoe Association in 1893, which still exists today as the Carleton Place Canoe Club.

The " Crash Position Indicator " ( CPI ) was manufactured and marketed in Carleton Place by Leigh Instruments Ltd.

Town Hall and Mississippi River in Carleton Place

One of the principal attractions of Carleton Place is the Mississippi River, including the rapids through limestone which supports one of the regions largest stands of hackberry trees.

There is also the Carleton Place Dragon Boat Festival, Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum, and the Canada Veteran's Hall of Valour.

Also located in Carleton Place is the The Book Gallery, Ontario's largest used book store.

The Carleton Place Canoe Club was founded in 1893 and it is the oldest canoe club in Canada.

The Bridge Street Bazaar hosted annually by the Carleton Place BIA ( Business Improvement Association ) is a street fair, which occurs on the Civic Holiday weekend.

As a result of the population growth in Carleton Place and area, Highway 7 has been in the process of expanding from two lanes to four to allow better traffic flow from the Ottawa area during rush hour periods.

In addition to the Highway 7 expansion, since 2006, there has been a rapid expansion in the number and variety of retail stores in Carleton Place, mainly concentrated along McNeely Ave between Hwy 7 and Coleman Avenue / Cavanaugh Road in three large format big box developments.

The Carleton Place Farmer's Market has a wide variety of vendors-farm fresh produce and meats, homemade preserves and baking, as well as handmade crafts and artwork.

Though track through Carleton Place has not been removed, local advocates work towards maintaining the presence of a local train track, however, rail utility buildings in downtown Carleton Place were recently removed.

The Upper Canada District School Board manages public education in Carleton Place and Lanark County, while the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario is in charge of schools teaching the Catholic curriculum.

Following is a list of schools in the Carleton Place area:

* Carleton Place High School

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

His replacement as commander of the Federal District of New Mexico was Brigadier General James H. Carleton.

Carleton believed that the Navajo conflict was the reason for New Mexico's " depressing backwardness ".

Carleton believed there was gold in the Navajo country, and that they should be driven out to allow its development.

" However, it was largely Canby's proposed plan, written from a position of relative neutrality and created in hopes of defusing the situation, that Carleton and Carson ultimately carried out.

Carleton had insisted that livestock was not to be used for personal use.

Carson urged Carleton to accept two resignations he was forwarding, “ as I do not wish to have any officer in my command who is not contented or willing to put up with as much inconvenience and privations for the success of the expedition as I undergo myself ”.

In November 1864, Carson was sent by General Carleton to deal with the Indians in western Texas.

In 1970, Lawrence Kelly noted that Carleton had warned 18 Navajo chiefs that all Navajo peoples " must come in and go to the ' Bosque Redondo ' where they would be fed and protected until the war was over.

In 1955, at age 18, she married Richard Carleton Meeker whom Mary described as " the boy next door ," and within six weeks she was pregnant with her only child, Richard, Jr. ( born July 3, 1956 ).

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries anthropologists used a typological model to divide people from different ethnic regions into races, ( e. g. the Negroid race, the Caucasoid race, the Mongoloid race, the Australoid race, and the Capoid race which was the racial classification system as defined in 1962 by Carleton S. Coon ).

As mentioned previously, the Lower West Side is the former working-class neighbourhood that was known as Carleton at the time of the city's formation in 1785.

* Ottawa, Ontario, was given its large area by the amalgamation in 2001 of the old City of Ottawa, the suburbs of Nepean, Kanata, Gloucester, Rockcliffe Park, Vanier and Cumberland, Orleans, and the rural townships of West Carleton, Osgoode, Rideau, and Goulbourn

A dramatized version directed by Douglas Cleverdon and starring Jane Asher was recorded in the late-1950s by Argo Records, with actors Tony Church, Norman Shelley and Carleton Hobbs, and Margaretta Scott as the narrator.

The petition requesting the establishment of the school, titled " The Founders ' Petition of 1785 ," was addressed to Governor Thomas Carleton and was signed by seven Loyalist men: William Paine, William Wanton, George Sproule, Zephaniah Kingsley, John Coffin, Ward Chipman, and Adino Paddock.

The index was widely used by anthropologists in the early twentieth century to categorize human populations, and by Carleton S. Coon in the 1960s.

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The Hills maintained close ties with Archbishop John Ireland and Hill was a major contributor to the Saint Paul Seminary, Macalester College, Hamline University, the University of St. Thomas, Carleton College, and other educational, religious and charitable organizations.

An invasion of Canada ; by the Continental Army in 1775, to take Quebec from British control was halted at the Battle of Quebec, by Guy Carleton, with the assistance of local militias.

In the same communication, Carleton observed that the Act was not a permanent solution:

On 21 September 1775, Lieutenant-Governor Cramahé, who governed at Quebec while Carleton was in Montreal, wrote to Dartmouth on the failure to rally the people after word arrived of the impending invasion from the colonies to the south:

In 1817, Carleton Island, captured from the British in the War of 1812, was annexed to the county.

Still another important chapter in the story of the Revolution was written on May 5, 1783, when General Washington received Sir Guy Carleton at the DeWint House, where they discussed the terms of the peace treaty.

" Letter writer Dudley Carleton reported that when the Queen afterwards danced with the Spanish ambassador, he kissed her hand " though there was danger it would have left a mark upon his lips ".