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unusual facts about Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton



1910–11 NHA season

Ottawa had picked up Cyclone Taylor from Renfrew to play in the Boston exhibition games.

23rd Renfrewshire Rifle Volunteers

23rd Renfrew RV played in navy shirts, navy shorts, and red socks, and played in Muirhead Park in Cathcart.

A Fictional Guide to Scotland

This reading tour visited places as far and wide as Wigtown, Ullapool, Inverness, Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanark and Glasgow and was supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

Andrew Haydon

Andrew S. Haydon (fl. 1970s–1990s), politician in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton

Arthur Beauchesne

Born in Carleton, Bonaventure County, Quebec, Beauchesne received a Bachelor's degree from St. Joseph’s College in Memramcook, New Brunswick.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Michael Kelway Oliver, a former professor of Political Science at McGill and President of Carleton University was the first CCPA president.

CFS Carp Almonte Detachment

The Almonte Detachment was a military-operated radio communications receiver station linked by land line to CFS Carp located off Lanark County Road 49 East of Almonte, Ontario.

Danielle Renfrew

Danielle Renfrew is a film producer who has produced films such as Groove (2000) and November (2004), both of which were directed by Greg Harrison.

Doc Evans

He graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in English, and played with the Carleton Collegians dance band there.

Gallowhill

The estate falls within the catchment areas of four secondary schools: Castlehead High, Paisley Grammar School, St Andrew's Academy in Paisley and Trinity High School in Renfrew.

George Harrison Dunbar

The George Dunbar Bridge which crosses the Rideau River near Carleton University in Ottawa was named in his honour.

Guy Carleton Phinney

In the Magnolia neighborhood, Carleton Park was named for him by his son.

Handsworth Secondary School

Trevor Martin, Carleton University Intramural Champion, "Hot Wheels"

Herbert Thomas Johnson

Edward Carleton Johnson was a salesman and a Lieutenant in the Vermont National Guard when he died after the onset of Polio.

Historical definitions of races in India

According to Carleton S. Coon in his book The Races of Europe 1939, he classified the Dravidians as "Caucasoid" due to their "Caucasoid skull structure" and other physical traits such as noses, eyes and hair.

HMCS Carleton

On 17 December 1943 HMCS Carleton moved to its current facilities at Canadian Forces Reserve Barrack Dow's Lake, when the new "stone frigate" was inaugurated in the presence of Major General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada.

James Henry Carleton

General Carleton died, serving with the Fourth Cavalry Regiment in his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel, at age 59 in January 7, 1873, in San Antonio, Texas, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts; his son, Henry was later buried beside him.

After the Confederate threat to New Mexico seemed to have been eliminated, Canby and many of the Union forces were sent to the east; so, in late August, Carleton was placed in command of the Department of New Mexico.

Jim Peplinski

James Desmond Peplinski (born October 24, 1960 in Renfrew, Ontario) is a Canadian former National Hockey League (NHL) player and captain for the Calgary Flames.

John Carleton Jones

John Carleton Jones (July 30, 1856 – April 22, 1930) was an American educator and tenth president of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri; in recognition, he was initiated as an honorary member of Acacia Fraternity.

John Turmel

In the election, Turmel ran as an independent against Green Party leader Trevor Hancock in Toronto—Beaches, Marc Gauvin ran in Ottawa Centre, supporter Serge Girard in Ottawa—Vanier, and John and Ray’s mother, Therese Turmel ran in Ottawa West, and Ray Turmel ran as an "independent Green" in Nepean—Carleton.

Kevin Hagen

Hagen guest starred seven times on Gunsmoke, six times on The Big Valley, five times each on Bonanza, Laramie, and Have Gun - Will Travel, four appearances on Mannix and The Time Tunnel, and three appearances on Perry Mason, two of them in 1965: as murderer Jacob Leonard in "The Case of the Gambling Lady," and Samuel Carleton in "The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein."

Lanark Lanimers

An official ride-out around the March stones takes place on Wednesday night, followed by the presentation of the New Lanark Loving Cup to the Queen-Elect at New Lanark.

Lanark: A Life in Four Books

The Institute he describes as a combination of Wyndham Lewis's conception of Hell in Malign Fiesta along with three real-life structures: the London Underground, Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow and BBC Television Centre in London.

Larry Gilmour

Born in Almonte, Ontario, Gilmour played for the Renfrew, Ontario Hockey Club in the Ottawa Valley Hockey League from 1898 until 1902 when he joined the Renfrew Riversides in the Upper Ottawa Valley Hockey League.

Long Walk of the Navajo

Carleton gave the orders to Kit Carson to proceed to Navajo territory and to receive the Navajo surrender on July 20, 1863.

Mark A. Carleton

For the next several years Carleton worked for a number of agro-businesses including the United States Grain Corporation and the United Fruit Company.

Michael John O'Brien

He became involved in ice hockey while living in Renfrew financing several ice hockey teams run by his son Ambrose O'Brien, including teams in Cobalt, Haileybury, Montreal and Renfrew, which all played in the founding season of the National Hockey Association.

Milledgeville High School

MHS serves the communities and surrounding areas of Milledgeville, Chadwick, Lanark, Mt. Carroll, Savanna, and Thomson.

Minnie Bell Sharp

In 1919, the now impoverished and decidedly eccentric Sharp announced her candidacy for the constituency of Victoria—Carleton in the first post-war Canadian federal election.

Murray McBride

McBride was defeated in the 1972 election by Paul Dick of the Progressive Conservative party at the riding which became Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton.

Ottawa municipal election, 2006

Bob Chiarelli: Incumbent mayor, has been mayor of Ottawa since 2001, and was regional chair of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton prior.

Renfrew

In 2013, the Rev Lorna Hood, minister at Renfrew North Parish Church and Chaplain to The Queen, will become Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Renfrew Ferry

The Erskine, Whiteinch, Partick, Govan and Finnieston ferries have all stopped providing the services as bridges and tunnels replaced them, but the Renfrew Ferry, being at a point where both tunnelling and bridging are difficult, has survived.

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

Alpha Video has released Region 0 DVDs of five of the eight Renfrew films: Fighting Mad, Crashing Thru, Yukon Flight, Murder on the Yukon and Sky Bandits.

Renfrew–Collingwood

In 1861, Colonel Richard Moody made the first modern attempt to break through the thick forests that covered the areas now known as Renfrew–Collingwood, building a military trail on the route of an ancient First Nations trail that led from New Westminster to English Bay.

The name Collingwood was likely selected by some former residents of Collingwood, Ontario.

Renfrew, Pennsylvania

The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad runs materials to and from the AK Steel mill in Butler through Renfrew along Railroad St. Once used by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, it was at one time a thriving railway that would travel down to Pittsburgh.

Robert Lorne Richardson

Born in Balderson, Lanark County, Upper Canada, the son of Joseph Richardson and Harriet Thompson, Richardson was educated at the Balderson Public School and in 1879 became a journalist working for the Montreal Star and briefly for the Toronto Globe.

Russell County, Ontario

Cumberland Township became part of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton in 1969, and is now part of the single-tier city of Ottawa.

Saratoga campaign

On June 13, 1777, Burgoyne and Carleton reviewed the assembled forces at St. John's on the Richelieu River, just north of Lake Champlain, and Burgoyne was ceremonially given command.

Sheryl Boyle

Sheryl Boyle (born November 13, 1965 in Renfrew, Ontario) is a Canadian slalom canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.

Smiths Falls Bears

The following summer, the Bears announced their relocation to nearby Lanark, Ontario as a result of new ownership.

Third Lanark A.C.

Despite claims by others to the rights to the club's name, the owner of the name of the club that went bankrupt, "Third Lanark Athletic Club Ltd", is former Glasgow MP Sir Teddy Taylor.

Thomas Graham

Tommy Graham (born 1943), Scottish Member of Parliament for Renfrew West and Inverclyde

Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace

Wallace was the son of James Wallace (1729–1783), a barrister who served as Solicitor General for England and Wales and as Attorney General, by Elizabeth, only daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Simpson, Esquire, of Carleton Hall, Cumberland.

Tofy Mussivand

He is Professor of Surgery and Engineering at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University; Chair and Director, Cardiovascular Devices Division of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI); and Medical Devices Program of both the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

Tuckerman Ravine

Just two years after the headwall was first run on April 11, 1931 by Dartmouth men John Carleton and Charles N. Proctor, the Ski Club Hochgebirge proposed a 4.2-mile summit-to-base race on Mt. Washington, to be called the American Inferno, named for a similar race held in Mürren, Switzerland.

Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Upper Saucon has three north-to-south numbered routes: 309, 145, and 378. In Lanark, 309 comes north from Philadelphia via Quakertown to join Interstate 78 coming east from New York City and cross the mountain to Allentown.

Walter Tenney Carleton

Their only son, Charles Dubois Carleton was born 7 January 1899 in Yokohama Japan, where Walter and Enriqueta had traveled on business with Western Electric.


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