Robert Cummings (politician)
Robert Cummings (
June 16 1833-??) was a
Canadian manufacturer and community leader.
He was born in
Gloucester Township, Ontario to a family of
Irish immigrants in 1833. He learned the trade of
carriage making and became a leading Canadian manufacturer. He opened a general store on Cummings Island in the
Rideau River which became the nucleus of a new community,
Janeville, which eventually became part of
Vanier. He served ten years as reeve in the township and was also a
Justice of the Peace.
The
Cummings Bridge across the Rideau River was named after him.
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Carleton Saga, Harry & Olive Walker (1968)
