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Joseph-Ignace Aumond

Joseph-Ignace Aumond[1, 2, 3]

Male 1810 - 1879  (69 years)

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  • Name Joseph-Ignace Aumond 
    Birth 21 Mar 1810  Assomption, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Male 
    Arrives 1828  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Biography
    School 1842  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Un des premiers membres de la commission scolaire.
    Occupation 1847  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Nommé au premier bureau de santé.
    Occupation 1849  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Preésident de Bytown and Montreal Telegraph
    Occupation 1850 
    • membre fondateur et directeur du Bytown and Prescott Railway
    Occupation 1854 
    • Directeur de Consummer Gas
    Occupation 1866 
    • Directeur de City Passenger Horse Railway
    Politics 1874 
    • Candidat conservateur non élu (conservateur)
    Death 9 Nov 1879  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Burial 11 Nov 1879  Fallowfield, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    • Section U, Lot 2
    Person ID I70415  Lowertown
    Last Modified 18 Jul 2023 

    Family Jane Cummings,   b. 1817   d. 2 Feb 1875, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 21 Apr 1833  Notre Dame, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F3565  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Joseph Ignace Aumond

  • Notes 
    • Aumond, Joseph

      Joseph Aumond was born in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, on 21 March 1810. He was a son of Ignace Aumont and Euphrosine Robichault. He came to Bytown in 1828 to manage a store for the Montreal firm of J.D. Bernard [Woods 1980]. A couple of years later, he set up his own store, and soon engaged in lumbering, building one the largest steam sawmills in Canada. He was a member of the Ottawa Lumber Association when it was established in 1836, and became the first president of the Bytown and Montreal Telegraph Company in 1849. He was also one of the directors of the Bytown and Prescott Railway Company, and was prominent in the Bytown Mechanics Institute. In addition, he rose to the rank of colonel in the 4th battalion of the Carleton militia. In the business slumps of 1848-49 and 1854, he suffered heavy losses. His operations continued, but on a much smaller scale [Pilon 1972]. He married Jane Cummings, daughter of John Cummings and Eliza Mowbry, on 21 April 1833 in Bytown’s Notre Dame church [Anon. 1983, Newton 1990]. Joseph’s wife Jane was 58 years old when she died in Ottawa on 20 February 1875 [Newton 1990]. Joseph died at his residence in Ottawa on 9 November 1879. He was buried in Notre Dame Cemetery.

  • Sources 
    1. [S4] page 17.

    2. [S4] page 101.

    3. [S8] Tome 1, page 303-304.

    4. [S167] page 44.

    5. [S76] .