(died 5 June 1977, aged 77) and his wife Virginie Theoret (died 19 May 1994, aged 95), general store proprietors. Louis Goulet was born in Montreal. Mrs Louis Goulet was born at Fassifern, GC. Parents: David Theoret and his wife Marceline St. Denis. She and Louis Goulet were married at St. Alexander’s Church, Lochiel, 18 Oct. 1920. For a period after their marriage she and her husband farmed at Glen Sandfield. In 1921 or 1922 they bought a store at Dalkeith, and for some years they operated the store as a butcher shop with an abattoir at the back. The slaughterhouse operation was discontinued in 1941, after which the store was converted to a general store. The store and the attached living quarters were struck by a major fire in 1946 and again in 1970. The Goulets operated the general store till 1961 or 1962, at which time it was taken over by their son Gérard and his wife Yvette. In 1988 Gérard and Yvette Goulet received the Air Canada/Community Newspapers Association Heart of Gold award for outstanding community service. (Glengarry News 20 July 1988, with illustr.) In 1992 Gérard and Yvette Goulet sold the business and retired from the 70-year involvement of the Goulet family with merchandising in Dalkeith. (Vankleek Hill Review 7 Oct. 1992, illustr.) Louis Goulet died at his home at Dalkeith. (three children, 1 surviving him) In her last years his widow Virginie Goulet lived in the Community Nursing home in Alexandria. She and her husband are buried in St. Paul’s cemetery, Dalkeith.
Obituaries Louis and Virginie Goulet, Glengarry News June 1977, 1 June 1994 * historical background in GN and Vankleek Hill Review as cited * St. Alexander CR, II, 170-171