(21 Sept. 1875-15 Jan. 1946), newspaperman. (also known by surname Leroux) Born in GC, probably at Alexandria or in the Alexandria area. Parents: Moses Leroux (1840-1938) and his first wife Adeline Amell (Hamell) (d. July 1913). Moses Leroux, the father of the subject of the present article, was born at Racket River [Raquette River?], N.Y., and was a storekeeper at St. Andrew’s, Ont., and a farmer near Alexandria, in Kenyon Township. He later lived at Summerstown Front and in Cornwall, where he died. His son, Gilbert A. LaRue (Leroux) attended primary school in GC and high school in Cornwall, and was a student at Queen’s University, apparently only briefly. No documentation at Queen’s of his registration there has come to light. However, he may have been the first GC French Canadian to attend that university. Afterwards, Gilbert A. LaRue taught school in Manitoba for some years, then moved to Saskatchewan, where he is said to have been the founder of the town of Vonda, near Saskatoon. In 1915, he was a student in arts and law at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1919, he moved to Edmonton, and in 1920 to St. Paul, Alberta. In St. Paul, he was first a businessman in real estate and insurance, then in 1924 he founded a newspaper, the St. Paul Journal, of which he was proprietor and editor for many years (though his tenure may not have been quite continuous). The obituary tribute LaRue paid to William Gibbens, of the Cornwall Standard, was noted appreciatively in a Standard editorial, which remembered that LaRue had old associations with the Standard. (Cornwall Standard 7 April 1932) Gilbert A. LaRue, who retired from active business about two years before his death, died at Edmonton. Roman Catholic. He was married in 1904 to Ann Sheedy, of Winnipeg. (children surviving him: 4) At the end of his life he was assembling material for a history of the Leroux family which he intended to publish, but he did not live to complete it. Gilbert A. LaRue had a brother, Dr William Leroux or LaRue, of Los Angeles.

St. Paul Journal 18 Jan. 1946 (portrait), Standard Freeholder 23 Jan. 1946, Glengarry News 25 Jan. 1946 * Moses Leroux: 95th birthday, sketch of his life, SFH 30 Oct. 1935; obituary, report on funeral, SFH 18 & 23 May 1938 * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 48 * Gloria M. Strathern, Alberta Newspapers 1880-1982: an Historical Directory (University of Alberta Press, 1988), 207, 363 * mentioned as Conservative activist in Alberta, Cornwall Standard 11 Feb. 1932