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3 unusual facts about Carrying Place


Carrying Place

Portage or carrying trail, place where watercraft or cargo are carried over land from one body of water to another

Carrying Place, Ontario, a community and National Historic Site in Canada

Henry Percival Biggar

Henry Percival Biggar (Carrying Place, Ontario, August 9, 1872 — Worplesdon, Surrey, July 25, 1938) was a historian and Canadian archivist.



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John Stanwix

After his relief by General John Forbes in 1758, General Stanwix went to Albany, New York, whence he was ordered to the Oneida carrying-place, to secure that important position by the erection of a work which was called Fort Stanwix in his honor.