Carleton Place, Ontario

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Carleton Place (2004 population 9,400) is a town in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Lanark.

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.

Both textile and lumber mills flourished here, but none are still operating. Today, the remaining mill buildings house condominiums and "high-tech" industry.

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

	North: Mississippi Mills
West: Beckwith	Carleton Place	East: Beckwith
	South: Beckwith

External links:

• town web site