====== Daoust, Joseph Emilien ====== 
 (died 9 March 1923, aged 57), blacksmith and businessman. Born at North Lancaster, GC. As a youth, he was apprenticed to his father in the trades of blacksmithing, carriage making and painting. In 1887, when he was around 20, he went to the West. There he worked as an instructor in blacksmith work at the Indian school of which Fr Joseph Hugonard (1848-1917) was principal at Lebret in the Qu’Appelle Valley. Daoust’s obituary says he “came west with” Fr Hugomard. Though little weight can be put on a few casual words, these do imply some surviving belief he was associated with Fr Hugonard before arriving at Lebret. After his time at Lebret, Daoust settled at Winnipeg, then he went back east, where he took over the business of his deceased father, at an unnamed location but presumably in GC. However, “After the stirring and pioneering struggle of the west he was unable to content himself in the east and returned to the west in 1907 locating in Yorkton [Sask.] He took over the business on Broadway, near the present site of the city garage, and afterwards moved to Betts Avenue where he built the large establishment conducted by him till his death.” He died, after a long illness, at his home in Yorkton. (children surviving him: 7) He was a Roman Catholic. He was married to Ellen Kirk. “An accomplished linguist,” he was fluent in Gaelic and French as well as English. He is said to have been involved in the founding of an organization described as the blacksmiths’ union of western Canada. His son Rodolphe was killed in the First World War.


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<fs small>//Cornwall Standard// 5 April 1923, //Glengarry News// 6 April 1923 (from Yorkton newspaper) (QF) * there is a life of Fr Hugonard in //Dictionary of Canadian Biography// XIV
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