(died 24 June 1937, aged 63), clergyman. Born in Montreal. Parents: Paul Dulin and his wife Delphine Vincent. Joseph W. Dulin was raised in Cornwall, where his parents moved when he was six years old. He attended Cornwall schools, Ottawa University, and the Grand Seminary, Montreal. He was ordained in Montreal, 19 Dec. 1903. He was the chairman of the building committee formed in 1909 for the building of Sacred Heart Church, Alexandria, and he was the first pastor of the church. The cornerstone of the church was blessed in April 1910 and the first mass in the church was at Christmas 1910. Fr Dulin was the pastor of Sacred Heart parish from1909 to 1924. During his pastorate land for a parish cemetery was purchased in 1911, the first rectory was built in 1913, and the three bells were blessed in 1914. In July 1921, he visited Ottawa with Mayor Simon and F. T. Costello to seek help for victims of the recent Alexandria fire. (Glengarry News 29 July 1921) From 1924 to 1935 he was pastor at Dickinson’s Landing. From 1935 to the end of his life, he was pastor at Precious Blood Parish, Glen Walter. He died at Hotel Dieu, Cornwall. He is buried in St. Columban’s cemetery, Cornwall. A noted Cornwall lacrosse player in his youth, he is remembered to have been active at Dickinson’s Landing in promoting lacrosse and hockey, and earlier he was a strong promoter of the Alexandria lacrosse teams. Robert Choquette states in De la controverse à la concorde (p. 43) that when Fr Couturier became bishop of Alexandria in 1921, the diocese had only four priests of French origin and that of these two, “les abbés Dulin et Gauthier, parlaient difficilement le français.”

Glengarry News 25 June & 2 July 1937, Standard Freeholder 25 & 28 June 1937 * Villeneuve 221-222, 235, 239 * report on 40th anniversary of Sacred Heart Parish, GN 30 Sept. 1949 * Paroisse Sacré-Coeur: Souvenir 75: Livre souvenir publié à l’occasion du 75e anniversaire de fondation de la Paroisse Sacré-Coeur d’Alexandria (1985), passim (portrait) * MacGillivray & Ross 164, 213 * Leonard A. O’Dette, Glimpses Glances Sideswipes of Dickinson Landing (1982) 191 * Choquette: index * Fr Henri Bougie to be assistant to Fr Dulin at Sacred Heart Parish, Glengarry News 21 Dec. 1923 * Fr Dulin leaves Sacred Heart pastorate because of ill health, Cornwall Standard 27 March 1924, is to be pastor at Dickinson’s Landing GN 1 Aug. 1924, is to be pastor at Glen Walter, GN 22 Nov. 1935