Joseph-Ignace Aumond

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrives: 1828, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• School: 1842, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1847, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1849, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1850
• Occupation: 1854
• Occupation: 1866
• Politics: 1874

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.


Biography:
http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/aumond_joseph_ignace_10F.html

School:
Un des premiers membres de la commission scolaire.

Occupation:
Nommé au premier bureau de santé.

Occupation:
Preésident de Bytown and Montreal Telegraph

Occupation:
membre fondateur et directeur du Bytown and Prescott Railway

Occupation:
Directeur de Consummer Gas

Occupation:
Directeur de City Passenger Horse Railway

Politics:
Candidat conservateur non élu (conservateur)

Buried:
Section U, Lot 2

Joseph-Ignace married Jane Cummings on 21 Apr 1833 in Notre Dame, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Jane was born in 1817; died on 2 Feb 1875 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]