| <tab>Huot retired from business in 1936. The business was, right up to this time, the store his father had operated. At this time the //Glengarry News// wrote, “After more than half a century in the mercantile trade, the familiar name of ‘Huot’ disappears from the local business scene with the sale on Saturday by our townsman Mr. J.A.C. Huot of his general merchandise establishment. We hear that Mr. Huot purposes moving to Ottawa… The purchaser is Mr. Leo de Grossellier of Sturgeon Falls, Ont., a young man whom we welcome to our business circles.” (//Glengarry News //24 April 1936) Leo Des Groseilliers (1908-29 Feb. 1976), who proved a popular and successful merchant, operated the former Huot store till 1950, and was afterwards for many years clerk of the provincial court in Alexandria. His brother Lionel Des Groseilliers (1913-1969) owned the Alexandria Hotel, in Alexandria, 1948-1953. | <tab>Huot retired from business in 1936. The business was, right up to this time, the store his father had operated. At this time the //Glengarry News// wrote, “After more than half a century in the mercantile trade, the familiar name of ‘Huot’ disappears from the local business scene with the sale on Saturday by our townsman Mr. J.A.C. Huot of his general merchandise establishment. We hear that Mr. Huot purposes moving to Ottawa… The purchaser is Mr. Leo de Grossellier of Sturgeon Falls, Ont., a young man whom we welcome to our business circles.” (//Glengarry News //24 April 1936) Leo Des Groseilliers (1908-29 Feb. 1976), who proved a popular and successful merchant, operated the former Huot store till 1950, and was afterwards for many years clerk of the provincial court in Alexandria. His brother Lionel Des Groseilliers (1913-1969) owned the Alexandria Hotel, in Alexandria, 1948-1953. |
| <tab>Whatever intentions Huot may have had of leaving Alexandria for his retirement, he appears to have been an Alexandria resident at the time of his death. His death, however, which was sudden, took place in Montreal, where he had gone on a visit to seek medical advice. He was married (1) in 1897 to Josephine (Josie) Charlebois, daughter of Ogiste (Augustus) Charlebois of the foundry firm Miller, Campbell & Charlebois. She died in 1936, survived by nine children (her obituary //Glengarry News// 21 Feb. 1936), and (2) in Montreal in 1939 to Miss Estelle Hébert, of Sherbrooke, Que., with Dr Monfette, presumably the Dr Monfette formerly of Alexandria, being best man. (//Glengarry News// 10 March 1939) According to the wedding announcement, the couple planned to take a two-month cruise on the //Champlain// from New York to South America as a honeymoon journey. J. A. C. Huot was the brother of J.A.Réal Huot and Fr J.A. Huot. Clarence Ostrom says that his relations with his father and brothers and sisters were sometimes stormy, and that he once began a store ”in opposition to his father,” also that at one time he had a store in Alexandria called Huot & Larose. (The Huot store was only a few steps away from Clarence Ostrom’s business premises, and the //Glengarry News.//) See also E. J. Dever. | <tab>Whatever intentions Huot may have had of leaving Alexandria for his retirement, he appears to have been an Alexandria resident at the time of his death. His death, however, which was sudden, took place in Montreal, where he had gone on a visit to seek medical advice. He was married (1) in 1897 to Josephine (Josie) Charlebois, daughter of Ogiste (Augustus) Charlebois of the foundry firm Miller, Campbell & Charlebois. She died in 1936, survived by nine children (her obituary //Glengarry News// 21 Feb. 1936), and (2) in Montreal in 1939 to Miss Estelle Hébert, of Sherbrooke, Que., with Dr Monfette, presumably the Dr Monfette formerly of Alexandria, being best man. (//Glengarry News// 10 March 1939) According to the wedding announcement, the couple planned to take a two-month cruise on the //Champlain// from New York to South America as a honeymoon journey. J. A. C. Huot was the brother of J.A.Réal Huot and Fr J.A. Huot. Clarence Ostrom says that his relations with his father and brothers and sisters were sometimes stormy, and that he once began a store ”in opposition to his father,” also that at one time he had a store in Alexandria called Huot & Larose. (The Huot store was only a few steps away from Clarence Ostrom’s business premises, and the //Glengarry News.//) See also [[dever_edward_j|E. J. Dever]]. |
