Our Family's Journey Through Time
Notes:
Cumberland is a former municipality and now geographic township in eastern Ontario, Canada. It was an incorporated township from 1800 to 1999, when it was incorporated as the City of Cumberland, then ceased to be a separate municipality in 2001, when it was amalgamated into the city of Ottawa. It now exists only as a geographic township.
History
Cumberland, Ontario ward map 1997
Cumberland was originally incorporated as a township in 1800 as part of Russell County. It took its name from the Duke of Cumberland (later King of Hanover). When an upper-tier Regional level of government was created in 1969 to replace neighbouring Carleton County, the township was removed from Russell County and incorporated into the new Regional Municipality of Ottawa?Carleton.
The township comprised the eastern portion of Ottawa's Orl?ans suburb as well as the communities of Cumberland Village, Carlsbad Springs, Navan, Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Sarsfield, and Vars.
Almost 200 years after it was first incorporated, Cumberland became a city in 1999. City status was short-lived, however, as the municipality and all the other constituent municipalities (including the city of Ottawa) of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa?Carleton were amalgamated in 2001, to form a single municipality ? the new City of Ottawa.
Cumberland now forms part of Ottawa. The largest portion of the former municipality now forms Cumberland Ward, and is represented at Ottawa City Council. Most of the suburban neighbourhood of Orl?ans, which straddled the former boundary between Cumberland and the city of Gloucester, has been split off from Cumberland and Gloucester and is now joined in Orl?ans and Innes Wards. Thus, Cumberland Ward is now primarily rural in nature, made up of historic villages that now comprise bedroom communities of Ottawa.
Latitude: 45.4332, Longitude: -75.4339Matches 1 to 8 of 8
Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Birth  |
Person ID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Armstrong, Mary Ann | 29 Aug 1884 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I7586 |
| 2 | Bradley, Flossie Victoria | 20 Dec 1897 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I25085 |
| 3 | Lancaster, Francis Gordon "Frank" | 23 Mar 1886 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I28183 |
| 4 | Lucy, John Lucier | 1844 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I22647 |
| 5 | MacCormack, Winnifred Helen | 8 Apr 1907 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I11479 |
| 6 | Merkley, Hazie Lemuel | 22 Nov 1888 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I7888 |
| 7 | Nelson, Ernest Abraham | 21 Jul 1898 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I24016 |
| 8 | Scharfe Burroughs, Margaret Anne | 21 Jun 1861 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I13957 |
Matches 1 to 2 of 2
| Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Burial |
Person ID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scharfe Burroughs, Margaret Anne | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I13957 | |
| 2 | Spearman, William | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | I13956 | |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
| Family |
Marriage |
Family ID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucy / Hannah | 22 Aug 1864 | Cumberland, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada | F7658 |
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