Cumberland, Ottawa

Grand-daughter Matilda married Amable Foubert, son of Gabriel Foubert who operated and independent fur trading post where the Lièvre River flows into the Ottawa River.

In 1864, Postmaster George Gibb Dunning, a grandson of Abijah, changed the name to Cumberland.

Due to the commerce from two wharves, several gristmills, sawmills, woolen mills, match factories and seven stores, the village of Cumberland flourished until the late 1890s.

In 1907, the Canadian Northern Railway established an Ottawa−Hawkesbury line that stopped at Cumberland's train station until 1936.

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