(died 10 Aug. 1929, aged 73 years, 8 months), businessman. Born in GC. Parents: Mr and Mrs John Lalonde. Angus Lalonde lived in Cornwall from about 1880. In her chapter on Victorian Cornwallites, Elinor Senior wrote, “Probably one of the best known hotelmen in town was Angus Lalonde, a popular master builder who converted the Brennan block at the corner of Water and Marlborough Streets into a modern hotel, the Stormont House, at the turn of the century.” Lalonde, elected a town councillor in 1885, had an active career in Cornwall municipal affairs, being a councillor over a number of years, also reeve and deputy reeve, and was elected mayor of Cornwall in 1904. He was the second French Canadian elected a town councillor in Cornwall, and the first French Canadian mayor of Cornwall. He was employed by the Ottawa and New York Railway Company for 13 years, but returned to the construction business three years before his death. His obituary (Cornwall Standard) paid tribute to his success in the construction business and “the beautiful buildings he has erected in town.” He was a Conservative Party supporter, and as such he served as president of the Liberal-Conservative Association of Stormont County. Married. (twelve children surviving him) Roman Catholic. He is buried at Flanagan’s Point Cemetery.

     Another Angus Lalonde, who was born in GC and lived at Williamstown, Summerstown and Cornwall, was believed to be the oldest inhabitant of SDG when he died at 101 in 1937. (obituary Standard Freeholder 7 April 1937, QF) His son Frank P. Lalonde was “proprietor of…Frank P. Lalonde Limited, Montreal and Toronto, manufacturers of modern electrically operated floor machines.”

Cornwall Standard 15 Aug. 1929 * Senior 307 * Old Boys 1906 [114], portrait * families of Philip and Angus Lalonde, of Camerontown [Summerstown Station] lose six children to diphtheria in two weeks, Cornwall Standard 19 Jan. 1888 (Angus not necessarily either of the men of the present entry)