(died 2 Feb. 1991, aged 93), photographer, clerk-treasurer. (P. A. Charlebois) Born Alexandria, GC. Son of John H. Charlebois and his wife Emilia or Emilda Levitre. Peter Charlebois grew up in Alexandria, and became at an early age an office employee of the Munro & McIntosh firm. Peter Charlebois through this connection was Angus H. McDonell’s authority for the story that the celebrated Scottish-American car man Buick sought to form a business partnership with Munro & McIntosh. In 1924, when Munro & McIntosh was in decline, Charlebois took over the photography business of Duncan Donovan. He did posterity and the Glengarry public a great service by carefully preserving the glass plates of Dunovan’s photographs which are now divided between the Archives of Ontario and the Glengarry Historical Society. Peter Charlebois was the knowledgeable and highly efficient clerk-treasurer of Alexandria from June 1938 till his retirement in 1963 at the age of 65. Before this, he had been elected to the Alexandria PUC in 1933. Also, he was the secretary of the local ration board in 1942 (Glengarry News 20 Nov. 1942), and from 1953 to 1977 he was commissioner of police for Alexandria. He was a World War I veteran and a 58 year member of the Alexandria Legion branch. Angus H. McDonell at least twice paid tribute in print to his knowledge of Alexandria’s history. He was in the phone book as late as 1937 as “Charlebois PA Photographer Main.” He was the brother of Dr E. J. Charlebois.

Glengarry News 6 Feb. 1991 * Angus H. McDonell, “Charlebois Was Last Link to Glengarry’s Pioneer Crafts,” GN 20 Feb. 1991 repr. Glengarry Life 1992 * Angus H. MacDonell, “Blacksmiths Helped Town Grow,” GN 14 March 1984 * Harper 10 * GN 11 April 1924, forms association with Donovan * GN 25 July & 10 Oct. 1963, GN 17 March 1977 (portrait), to retire as clerk-treasurer, retirement dinner, presented with plaque for 44 years service to municipality of Alexandria * photograph GN 14 Oct. 1981 of Peter Charlebois examining the “Photo Sauvetage Glengarry” display of photographs (he was “the collector of many of the displayed photos”) * 1927 photograph by, printed GN 4 Dec. 2002