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The Gunshot Treaty
Carrying Place is a small town (hamlet maybe) close to Trenton. People pass through it on their way into Prince Edward County (from the highway 401, there's only 2 ways into the county), and as the expression goes "blink and you will miss it". There's a few houses, a Post Office and a small diner. The general store closed down some years ago. It is little more than a bedroom community for the larger towns of Trenton and Belleville. Certainly most people in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) would never have heard of this small place, but it is one of Ontario's oldest settled areas and it had a huge impact on the history of Ontario some years ago.
After the American Revolutionary War, refugees who remained loyal to the Crown were streaming into this area after having left the new nation of America. At the time, the Quinte area was under the signeurial system of Quebec, and the Loyalists objected to this, even though there were no French settlements. The land was inhabited by the Mississauga Peoples, and conflicts were beginning to arise between the new Loyalist settlers (squatters?) and the original inhabitants.
On October 9 1783, in the small ... more

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