contractors. (Rousson, and other spellings) The brothers included Adolphus, Noah and Timothy Rousseau, who have gravestone inscriptions in St. Mary’s cemetery, Williamstown. (Fraser, Gravestones, I, 20) In the late 1880s Duncan H. McKenzie was a partner in the contracting firm Rousseau Brothers & Co., which was stated to be identical with the firm McKenzie & Rousseau. (Purcell 1887 55-56) In 1948, in a historical article which probably used evidence from Joseph Daoust (1867-1948), the brothers’ nephew, the Rousseau brothers were remembered to have “built in Williamstown for a Montreal firm three barges or canal boats on which freight was carried down the Richelieu from Montreal to Burlington, Vt.” (Dunlop) These boats were presumably delivered by being taken down the Raisin River to the St. Lawrence.The Rousseau brothers are reported also to have sent timber and lumber from Williamstown down the Raisin by barges moved by poling. (Ross, Lancaster, 131) Named as Adolphus, Noah, Timothy, Arthur and Joseph, the Rousseau brothers are said to have been quality woodworkers, and to have worked as contractors on the Soulanges Canal, the wharf and hotel on Stanley Island, railway stations and bridges, and a Montreal race track. (Williamstown 200) See the following entries, in the present dictionary, for individual Rousseaus.

A.L. Dunlop, “Aux Raisins River Once Busy Water Route…,” Standard Freeholder 27 March 1948 (with photog. of Joseph Daoust) * Williamstown 200 26, 80 * death of John R. McDonell, 84, former reeve of Charlottenburgh and former employee of Rousseau Bros. on Soulanges Canal and railway work, SFH 11 Jan. 1944 * are building addition to wharf at Stanley Island, Glengarry News 12 March 1897