====== Duquette, Joseph R. ====== 
 (//fl//. 20th century), hotel keeper. (J. R. Duquette) He was the proprietor of a well known hotel called The Algonquin, on Stanley Island, which is across from Summerstown, GC. The Algonquin Hotel was a favourite summer resort drawing an affluent clientele from Canada and New York state. Some of its furnishings came from John A. (“Cariboo”) Cameron’s celebrated former home of Fairfield at Summerstown. Duquette was also the proprietor of the Hotel Duquette opposite the court house in Cornwall. He later had a Cornwall hotel called the King George, but that was presumably the Hotel Duquette under a changed name. Joseph’s brother Edward was associated with him in the hotel business. (Ed Duquette, Capt. Edward Duquette) Edward was born in Lachine, Que., and in his early years he was one of the best single scullers in and around Montreal. Edward operated the Duquette brothers’ steam launch, //Ivy//, which carried passengers back and forth between the island and the mainland, and he had also at some time been a pilot of government boats on the Lower St. Lawrence. Edward died 13 Feb. 1914, aged 53, at the Hotel Dieu, Cornwall.

<tab>In the spring of 1920, it was reported that E. Rouleau, of the Ottawa House, Alexandria, was to take a management position in the King George Hotel, Cornwall, in an arrangement which would allow Duquette would devote his whole time to The Algonquin. (//Glengarry News// 30 April 1920) The Algonquin burned 7 Dec. 1936. (//GN// 11 Dec. 1936)


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<fs small>Fraser (1959) (1959) 39-40 * //Old Boys 1906// [110] for Hotel Duquette (picture) & Algonquin * //Old Boys 1926// 32 for Algonquin (picture) * Art Cameron, “Stanley Island Is on Comeback Trail Again,” //Standard Freeholder// 3 Sept. 1949: Algonquin Hotel, Duquette, fire * Senior 306 * obituary of Edward Duquette, //Glengarry News// 20 Feb. 1914
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