(2 Aug. 1876-15 July 1978), blacksmith. Parents: Osias Bourbonnais, a blacksmith, and his wife Julianne Rozon. He lived most of his life at North Lancaster, GC, where he operated a blacksmith shop, continuing a family tradition. In 1959, his shop was removed to Upper Canada Village. He died, “a Glengarry centenarian,” in Casselman, Ont. at the Casselman Nursing Home where he spent the last nine years of his life. He was married to Délima Valade, of Glen Nevis, GC. (children surviving him: 9 ) Roman Catholic. He is buried at St. Margaret’s cemetery, Glen Nevis.

Glengarry News 19 July 1978 (QF)* Gens de chez-nous , II, (1983) 33-34 (with fine portrait)