growth in the area prompted the re-development of Innes Road from a two-lane to a four-lane road in 2005. With the Innes Road expansion, newer business areas along Innes Road between Trim and Pagé Roads, consist of many large retail outlets, restaurants, gyms, a movie theatre, etc. Timeline 1833 – François Dupuis, founder of Orléans, is listed on St. Joseph assessment rolls. 1834 – First Anglo settlers arrive in Blackburn Hamlet. 1836 – Cummings Bridge links Montreal Road to Bytown. 1846 – François Dupuis arrives with wife Mary Scott in what will be Orléans 1849 – First Catholic Chapel Saint-François-Xavier, opens on land donated by François Dupuis. 1850 – Post Office opens in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes. 1850 – Road opened between Cumberland and Gloucester and Bytown. 1850 – Toll gate opens at Green’s Creek. 1850 – Besserer family begins operating summer resort at Besserer’s Grove with quay at Besserer’s Landing – closed in 1885. 1855 – Father François-Joseph Michel opens Catholic mission in Cumberland, previously known as Foubertville. 1856 – Luc Major arrives in Orléans and opens tavern. 1858 – Luc Major draws up first plan of Orléans 1860 – Postmaster Jean Théodore Besserer gives St-Joseph-d’Orléans its name after his place of birth. 1860 – Private French school opens in Orléans. 1868 – McArthur Road opens as short-cut to Cyrville through McArthur Farm to avoid costly Montreal Road tolls. 1871 – Start of construction on St-Joseph-d’ Orléans Church – completed in 1885. 1882 – Canada Atlantic Railway opens from Ottawa to Carlsbad Springs and Maritimes. Today it is a Via Rail line 1885 – Grey Nuns buy 500 acres for giant Youville Farm in Orléans. 1890 – First Catholic Separate school opens in Orléans. Grey Nuns run it. 1891 – Construction of St-Joseph Church rectory. 1893 – Orléans opens cemetery behind St-Joseph Church 1895 – Irish Catholics open first English-language separate school in Orléans – demolished in 1956. 1900 – Antoine Leduc opens hotel in Orléans 1902 – CPR Short Line Railway opens from Ottawa to Blackburn Hamlet. Orléans asks for a railway too. 1909 – CN Railway opens line between Ottawa to Orléans and on to Hawkesbury. Land used for Queensway after rail line closes in 1939. 1910 – (April 6) Hiawatha Park subdivision approved – not be developed until 1950s. 1911 – Temperance sweeps Ontario. Sale of liquor banned in every tavern, inn and place of entertainment in Orléans 1915