Vanier's rise would be return to area's past

Once, it was an industrial powerhouse that helped fuel the economic fortunes of the nation’s capital.
It had many names over the years: Junction Gore, Cummings Island and Janeville, Clarkstown and Clandeboye in the mid-1800s.
Those latter three make up what would we know today as Vanier.
By the 1840s, pioneer Charles Cummings had acquired an island in the Rideau River, south of Montreal Road, and constructed a wooden bridge. The bridge opened the area to families of modest means who worked