(died 25 July 1971, aged 86), veterinarian. (Dr J. E. Beaudette) He is said to have been born and educated at St. Andrew’s, Ont. Father: Louis A. Beaudette. J. E. Beaudette began a practice in Alexandria in the spring of 1906 as a veterinarian (Glengarry News 4 May 1906), but continued it for only a year or so. While at Alexandria he is said to have had only a correspondence course training as a veterinarian, which was sufficient by the standards of the time. However, in 1909, he began studies at the Ontario Veterinary College (now a part of the University of Guelph), his home address as a student being given as Bonville, which is in Stormont County near St. Andrew’s, and he graduated in April 1912. From then on, he practised as a veterinarian at Martintown in GC, retiring only some three years before he died. At retirement, he was considered to be one of the oldest practising members of his profession in Canada. He was married to Mary Ann Decaire. (children surviving him: 4) He died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall, and is buried at St. Andrew’s, Ont. He had a brother, a railwayman A. J. Beaudette (1865-1938), who lived in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, for some 50 years. (obituary Standard Freeholder 14 Jan. 1938)
Glengarry News 29 July 1971 * Ostrom 86 (valuable biog. sketch) * Rhodes Grant, i, 104, ii, 132-133 (portrait) , 144 * information from student records, U of Guelph