page_title: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
section_title: Honours and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester / Honours and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester (1724-1808), statue de la façade de l'hôtel du Parlement, Québec
context_page_description: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester KB, known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and administrator. He twice served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and again from 1785 to 1795. The title Baron Dorchester was created on 21 August 1786.
  He commanded British troops in the American War of Independence, first leading the defence of Quebec during the 1775 rebel invasion and the 1776 counteroffensive that drove the rebels from the province. In 1782 and 1783 he led as the commander-in-chief of all British forces in North America. In this capacity he was notable for carrying out the Crown's promise of freedom to slaves who joined the British, and he oversaw the evacuation of British forces, Loyalists and more than 3,000 freedmen from New York City in 1783 to transport them to a British colony. Toward this end, Carleton assigned Samuel Birch to create the Book of Negroes.
  The military and political career of his younger brother, Thomas Carleton, was interwoven with his own, and Thomas served under him in the Canadas.
context_section_description: He was honoured by numerous places and educational institutions named for him:
  HMCS Carleton, a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve Division in Ottawa
  Carleton University in Ottawa
  The Carleton, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  Carleton, Nova Scotia
  Carleton Village, Nova Scotia
  Dorchester Road in Niagara Falls, Canada
  Dorchester Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in Montreal since renamed René Lévesque Boulevard
  Dorchester Square in downtown Montreal
  Dorchester Island and the parish and town of Dorchester, all of New Brunswick
  Carleton Street, in:
  Carlton Street in Downtown Toronto is indirectly named for Carleton via Ann Wood for her brother Guy Carleton Wood of Cornwall, Ontario
  Saint John, New Brunswick
  Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
  Fredericton, New Brunswick
  St. Andrews, New Brunswick
  Moosomin, Saskatchewan
  Rue Dorchester, a thoroughfare in Quebec City.
  Old Carleton County Court House, Upper Woodstock, New Brunswick
  Carleton Place, a town in Eastern Ontario
  Carleton County, New Brunswick
  Carleton County, Ontario, that became the Region of Ottawa-Carleton, and then the City of Ottawa with amalgamation in 2001.
  Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec, a town on the North Shore of Baie de Chaleurs.
  Guysborough County, Nova Scotia (Guys' borough)
  Guy's Restaurant, in his birthplace of Strabane, is also named after Carleton. The restaurant was formerly known as the Carleton Club.
  Lord Dorchester High School in Dorchester, Ontario
  Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School in Ottawa
  Sir Guy Carleton Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia.
  Carleton is mentioned in a Fort Saint-Jean plaque erected in 1926 by Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. "Constructed in 1743 by M. de Léry under orders from Governor la Galissonnière. This post was for all the military expeditions towards Lake Champlain. In August 31, 1760, Commandant de Roquemaure had it blown up in accordance with orders from the Governor de Vaudreuil in order to prevent its falling into the hands of the English. Rebuilt by Governor Carleton, in 1773. During the same year, under the command of Major Charles Preston of the 26th Regiment, it withstood a 45 day siege by the American troops commanded by General Montgomery."
  Carleton Island, part of the Thousand Islands, is near the Royal Military College of Canada. The Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe, named Wolfe island in General James Wolfe's honour in 1792. The surrounding islands bear the names of Wolfe's generals: Howe, Carleton, Amherst and Gage (now Simcoe). The island was ceded to the Americans in 1794 as part of Jay's Treaty.
  Via Rail Canada has a Manor sleeping car named after Sir Guy Carleton in his honour and there is a plaque inside the railcar explaining his exploits.
  The first railroad in Canada, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad had its first locomotive (a 0-2-0) named "Dorchester".
  Carleton Point, a short-lived Loyalist settlement on Great Abaco Island, Bahamas, was named for him
  The Dorchester Review magazine (est. 2011 at Ottawa) is named in his honour.
  Before 1790s Niagara Falls, Ontario was once called Mount Dorchester in honour of Carleton.
caption: Alfred Laliberté's Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester sculpture in front of Parliament Building (Quebec)
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