Fall Outing to Almonte and Carleton Place 

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 

* This is part of the History Interest Group's program. To join this group contact the convenor. If you are not a member of CFUW but would like to join us, email cfuwkanata.publicity@gmail.com  to request  information about our meetings. We always welcome new members. 

ALMONTE

                   

• Named after General Juan Almonte, Mexican Minister of War during multiple administrations as well as in various diplomatic posts in the United States and in Europe mid 1840’s
• Founder of Basketball Dr. James Naismith was born in Almonte in 1861 and graduated from the town’s high school in 1883

• Home to Mississippi Textile Museum with exhibitions about the woolen industry
• Almonte is home to Dairy Distillery, which makes vodka and cream liquors from milk sugar

CARLETON PLACE

• Canadian Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who was born and raised in Carleton Place, shot down the infamous Red Baron in April, 1918
• its name comes from Carlton Place, a 19th-century square in Glasgow, Scotland
• Carleton Place is home to Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited, a national organization of sheep farmers and the country’s largest distributor of lambs’ wool
• Home to the Stalwart Brewing Company where you can try grapefruit-vanilla IPA

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

HUMMINGBIRD CHOCOLATES, DANDELION FOODS and other Mill Street Merchants

WATERFRONT GASTRO PUB in Carleton Place for lunch followed by shopping.

CONTACT the Convenor for more details.

Car pooling available.