(died 28 April 1992, aged 89), hotelkeeper. Born in Alexandria, GC. Parents: Leo Laporte (Leonardo Laporta) and his wife Adele (Ida) Dapratto. A lifelong resident of Alexandria, he was the proprietor from a date in the middle 1940s till 1955 of the Atlantic Hotel, near the railway station in Alexandria. Built in 1882 and named after the Canada Atlantic Railway, the Atlantic was for many years Alexandria’s “station hotel” as an older generation of Ontarians would have termed it (i. e., it served the traffic from the railway), and is still prominent in Alexandria today. In 1955 Arthur Laporte sold the hotel to the business partners Lawrence Sauvé and Lloyd McHugh. (Glengarry News 2 June & 28 July 1955) Laporte was also the town building inspector, and was town councillor for two terms (1971, 1972). During World War II, he was a contractor on Camp Ipperwash. In his obituary (GN) he is described as “an avid gardener, hunter and fisherman.” A keen and concerned critic of the activities of the Alexandria town government, he helped to establish the 1974-1975 police investigation of the town administration. In the end, no charges were laid, but Police Detective-Sergeant Bob Faulhafer was quoted in the Ottawa Citizen as saying that “If I was a taxpayer of Alexandria and knew what I know after investigating, I’d be very unhappy with the way the town’s business has been conducted during the past 10 years.” (Ottawa Citizen 30 May 1975). Arthur Laporte died at Glengarry Memorial Hospital, Alexandria. Roman Catholic. He was married to Irene Laviolette, who predeceased him. (five children, four surviving him)

Glengarry News 6 May 1992 * 1974-1975 investigation: ”OPP Seize Alexandria Council Files,” Kitchener-Waterloo Record 22 Nov. 1974, Le Carillon 28 nov. 1974, Ottawa Citizen 27 & 30 May 1975, news report and editorial GN 5 June 1975 * articles on history of Atlantic Hotel by Bruce Myers, GN 21 June 1989, and by Denis Bertrand & Ewan Ross, Le Point 26 oct. 1982 * buys farm, GN 30 June 1955