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Fyans was baptised at Clontarf, Dublin and joined the British Army in 1810, seeing service in the Peninsula War.
Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1830 to 1836 named the town to honour Admiral John Surman Carden 1771-1858 who embarked Sir John following the relief of Sir John Moore's army at Corunna in the Peninsula War.
By the time the Peninsula War broke out, he was a gazetted company Captain and was able to escape from Madrid when it was occupied by the invading French Army.