family, merchants. Antoine Dancause (May 1857- 4 March 1915) was born at St-Anicet, Que. He came to Apple Hill, GC, about 1888 and founded a store there in 1889. After his death his sons Andrew (1884- Feb. 1973), Alexander, (1887-1978), and Albert (1893-1967) continued to operate the store. The original store was so small that the building had been transported to Apple Hill from Dominionville on a sleigh. About this humble structure a complex of small merchandising operations grew up. A hardware store was opened across from the original store. The upstairs of the hardware store was used by the Dancauses as the Apple Hill movie theatre. The movie theatre is said to have operated only in silent movie days, 1917-1926. There was also a meat market, with the prosperity of the Dancause meat trade noticed in 1904 (Glengarry News 3 June 1904), and an egg-grading station. Likewise, there was a poultry station for the purchase of dressed poultry (advert., GN 12 Dec. 1941; Dancause Bros. establish poultry station, GN 1 Dec. 1933). From 1913 gasoline was sold. The Dancauses dealt also in wholesale building supplies and they had a sawmill associated with the store business. The name of the business for many years was J.A. Dancause & Bros. After the death of the youngest brother Albert the store was sold to Hope and Touchette [see Touchette] Development Ltd of Alexandria. The store continued to operate for some years thereafter under the old name of J.A. Dancause & Bros.

Apple Hill (1982) * Gaudet * Dancause family gravestones, Apple Hill cemetery * interview with Alex Dancause, taped 6 July 1977 for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, copies of tape owned by the Society and by the present editor * obituary of Antoine Dancause, Glengarry News 12 March 1915 * obituary of Mrs Albert Dancause GN 24 Oct. 1990 * Dane Lanken, “Alexandria Movie Palaces,” Glengarry Life No. 34 (1995) includes a useful note on the Dancause cinema and provides the context * GN 3 July 1903, building new Dancause store at Apple Hill * Cornwall Freeholder 24 July 1924, Dancause advert. for binder twine, gasoline, coal oil and the movie “Pioneer Trails” * Maxville (1991) 785