====== Sauvé, Adelard ====== (died 5 March 1991, aged 74), businessman. Born presumably in Alexandria. GC. Parents: Arthur Sauvé and his wife Dorina Pilon. Adelard Sauvé was the founder of Sauvé Real Estate of Alexandria, continued after his death by his business associate and son Maurice. For many years from the 1960s, there were few words that the traveller in the GC countryside encountered more often on signs than the name Sauvé, marking properties that this well-known and widely-active real estate firm was selling. The firm’s office, located at the corner of Main and Kenyon, Alexandria, was in the former store premises of Donald J. Mcdonald (called “Boots”) bought in 1968 by Adelard and Maurice Sauvé. (//Glengarry News// 31 Oct. 1968) Adelard Sauvé was married to Rosabelle St. Pierre. (six children) The children included the well-known Alexandria businessman Maurice Sauvé already mentioned, for many years the manager of Sauvé Real Estate, and Roger Sauvé the economist. Adelard Sauvé died in Ottawa General Hospital. Roman Catholic. An earlier Adelard Sauvé was owner 1900-1943 of the Atlantic Hotel, Alexandria. ---- //Glengarry News// 20 March 1991 * moves to new home, Alexandria, //GN// 1 Nov. 1962 * qualifies as real estate broker, //GN// 5 Sept. 1963 * Maurice Sauve: biog. articles by Angus H. McDONELL and Joe Banks, //GN// 5 Sept. 1990 & 20 Oct. 1993 * Roger Sauvé: biographical sketch at end of his //Canadian People Patterns// (Western Producer Prairie Books, 1990), also //Bibliography of Glengarry// 97, and “Alexandria Native Enters Debate on Confederation” (largely repr. from //Globe & Mail// of 6 May), //GN// 2 June 1977 * Adelard Sauvé of Atlantic Hotel: article on Atlantic hotel by Bruce Myers, //GN// 21 June 1989 [<6>]