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VanierThen: Cummings General Store

December 8, 2013, 4:50 pm
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Situated on the Rideau River between Rideau Street and Montreal Road, to the south of today’s Cummings Bridge, lies Cummings Island, bought by Charles Cummings in 1836. The family opened the Cummings General Store, later to include the area’s first post office (opened in 1879) and telephone service (Serré 2008). The Cummings family likely built the first wooden bridge in the 1840s, connecting the island to Bytown and Gloucester (Janeville), with new bridges built in 1865 and 1893. Today’s bridge, the first to bypass the island entirely, was built by the City of Ottawa in 1921 – about the time that the City purchased Cummings Island and demolished the store (Muséoparc Vanier). Though plans were being developed by the City of Vanier in the 1980s and 1990s to develop the island as a heritage site, the island has been considered vacant ever since.

Image: Cummings Island; Bytown Museum (P154)

Serré, Robert (2008) “Pioneer Families of Janeville (Gloucester Township)” (Ottawa: Gloucester Historical Society)
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