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unusual facts about Nepean-Carleton



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.

Bells Corners

A new town hall was then built in Bells Corners at the intersection of Richmond and Robertson Roads, which was used from 1966 to the late 1980s, when a new Nepean city hall was built at Centrepointe.

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.

Carleton, Carlisle

It is a few miles to the south-east of the city centre of Carlisle and is near the River Petteril.

D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School

The school was named after D. Aubrey Moodie, who was Reeve of Nepean Township from 1954 to 1969 and was known as the "Father of Nepean".

Devon Meadows Football Club

The Seniors,Reserves and U18/s currently play in the Nepean Division of Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League (MPNFL) since moving from Casey-Cardinia Division in 2012.

Doc Evans

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

Erwin Kreyszig

Prior to joining Carleton University in 1984, he held positions at Stanford University (1954/55), the University of Ottawa (1955/56), Ohio State University (1956–60, professor 1957) and he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz.

George Harrison Dunbar

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

Gods of Plastic

The Carleton College Gods of Plastic (GoP) are a collegiate men's (open) ultimate team from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

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.

HMAS HDML 1324

HMAS HDML 1324, also known as Nepean was a 58-ton Harbour Defence Motor Launch of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

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.

Hugh Carleton

Hugh Carleton, 1st Viscount Carleton was the brother of his grandfather, John Carleton.

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.

Jamieson's Special Survey

It covers the entire suburb of Safety Beach and the part of Dromana north of the line of Point Nepean Road/Dunns Creek Road.

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."

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.

Mark Alfred Carleton (7 March 1866 – 25 April 1925) was an American botanist and plant pathologist, most notable for his introduction of hard red wheats and durum wheats from Russia into the American wheatbelt.

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance

The Rossall School was taken over initially, but later several hundred employees worked in prefabricated one-storey office buildings assembled on a site that had been part of the Holt's farm in the Norcross section of Carleton.

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.

Moodie Drive

It was named for D. Aubrey Moodie who was Reeve of Nepean Township from 1954 to 1969 and was known as the "Father of Nepean".

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.

Neil Matterson

On 22 May, at the Ned Hanlan-Elias C. Laycock exhibition match on the Nepean river, he won the All-comers' Light Skiff with 25 lb, defeating four others.

Nepean High School

Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School, Penrith, Australia (formerly known as Nepean High School)

Nepean River

Near Penrith, since 1971 numerous Aboriginal stone tools were found in Cranebrook Terraces gravel sediments deposited by the Nepean River 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, according to repeated, revised and corroborated radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dating.

Nepean Township, Ontario

The original town hall of the township of Nepean was located in Westboro, which became part of Ottawa in 1949.

The 1850 boundaries of Nepean Township were the Ottawa River on the north, the Rideau River on the east, approximately along where Bankfield Road and Brophy Drive are today on the south, and approximately where Eagleson Road, March Road, and Hertzberg Road are today through to Shirleys Bay on the west.

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.

Queensway-Carleton Hospital

Pierre Poilievre, MP representing Nepean—Carleton, attempted to reduce the rent of the hospital to $1 per year during his first term in office.

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.

Sprott School of Business

In addition to its degrees offered at Carleton, the Sprott School of Business collaborates with other schools to offer variety of degrees around the world, including in India, Iran, China, and in partnership with the University of Havana in Cuba.

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.

Walter Cope

Walter Cope was probably born at Hardwick Manor near Banbury, Oxfordshire, third son of Edward Cope of Hanwell, Oxfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Mohun, daughter of Walter Mohun of Overstone, Northamptonshire (who married Walter's stepfather, George Carleton of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, after Edward Cope's death in 1557).

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.

Will Carleton

"What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer, Will Carleton has done for the American-touched with the glamour of poetry the simple and monotonous events of daily life, and shown that all circumstances of life, however trivial they may appear, possess those alternations of the comic and pathetic, the good and bad, the joyful and sorrowful, which go to make up the days and nights, the summers and winters, of this perplexing world".


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Strandherd Drive

The federal government with in lead Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre announced $35 million in funding for the project but the majority of the Ottawa City Council refused the funding as it was money coming from a previous $200-million Liberal government announcement in 2004 for the light-rail extension.