====== Villeneuve, Bernard H. ====== (died 19 Aug. 1996, aged 56), businessman. (Bernard H. Villeneuve, Sr) He was the proprietor of Villeneuve Milk Transport Ltd, which he founded in 1963. At the time of his early death, the company had about 200 employees and was one of the major Ontario milk haulers. The company’s headquarters were in Stormont County on the Dyer Road, west of Maxville. Bernard Villeneuve combined his milk-trucking business with interests in construction, a school bus line, and the hauling of water for wells, cisterns and swimming pools. The company’s tank trucks picked up milk from farmers in SDG, Prescott, Russell, and a portion of Quebec. Bernard Villeneuve died in an Ottawa hospital, from complications following an aneurism. ---- “Villeneuve Transport, 25 Years of Growth” (history of firm), in Progress Supplement, //Glengarry News// 10 April 1985 * notice of his death: //GN// 18 Sept. 1996 (with portrait) & 31 Dec. 1996 (year 1996 in retrospect) * //Maxville (1991) //325 * news report on the Villeneuve family’s current milk transportation operations, //Vankleek Hill Review// 23 June 1999 [<6>]