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Carrying Place Ontario
Everybody who has driven into Prince Edward County on Highway 33 will have driven through Carrying Place. I'm sure a lot of people will have missed the sign and have been unaware that they were actually in a hamlet, there's really not much to distinguish it as a seperate entity from the scattering of houses that precede it on the highway. There is, however, a significant importance attached to this quaint little place.
The Murray Canal ends up in Carrying Place, which is important enough, but long before the canal was finished in 1882, this was the end of an important portage trail that the first nations people and later the traders had been using for centuries. I suppose when the boats became too big to be carried on people's heads for eight miles, the canal was built. The name "Carrying Place", however, stuck. This trail was so important to the economy of early Ontario (or Upper Canada as it was known then) that the province's very first road was built here. There is a fort in the vicinity which was manned by the British to protect this vital area (I'll write about that some other time).
Today the Hamlet of Carrying ... more

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