Janeville – Eastview – Vanier – Ottawa

The house was part of the community of Janeville, a small village in Gloucester Township. This area was developing along Montreal Road from the Cummings Bridge in the 1870s- one could say it was an early suburb.  The Janeville boundaries were the Rideau River to the west, Deschamps to the north, the former Vanier/Ottawa municipal boundary to the west and McArthur to the south.  Assessment rolls show that many large land holdings in this area were divided up into smaller ones in the 1870s and houses were built on the new lots. Most of the new inhabitants were listed in the rolls as labourers, clerks, or farmers, including farm labourer.  Janeville was a predominantly Anglophone village.

The home has survived several phases of development in the community and has become an isolated example of what Janeville once looked like.  Small workers' homes on large lots that provide space for gardens and out buildings – including a privy at the Gamman House in use into the late 1940's.

In 1913 Janeville amalgamated with Clarkstown to the north and Clandeboye to the east to become the village of Eastview and eventually the City of Vanier that was amalgamated into the new city of Ottawa in 2001.

When Eastview was incorporated as a town, Nathaniel ran unsuccessfully for Town Council but was defeated only to be elected in a by-election a few months later.