(24 May 1896-14 May 1970), cattle breeder, businessman. (Joseph Vaillancourt, Joe Vaillancourt) Born at Glen Roy, GC. Parents: Honoré Vaillancourt and his wife Emma Gougeon. In 1945 Joseph Vaillancourt was called “one of the best known Holstein breeders in Eastern Ontario.” (Standard Freeholder 16 Nov. 1945) His Holstein herd at his farm at Glen Roy, known as Goodyear Farm, is described in the 1995 official history of the Glengarry Holstein Club as “one of the outstanding herds in Eastern Ontario in the late 30's and early 40’s.” Joseph Vaillancourt sold the Goodyear Farm herd in August 1945. Joseph Vaillancourt was also proprietor 1935-1966 of Goodyear Feeds at Green Valley, where he had a mill, warehouse and office, for the sale of farm feeds for cattle, poultry and swine. “He imported boatloads of molasses from the West Indies and carloads of twine from Mexico.” (The molasses was used as winter feed for dairy cows; the twine, until the later 1950s, would have been the well-known binder twine for grain sheaves.) Politically, he was a Conservative, described in his obituary as “active” in his party. His nephew Eldège Vaillancourt (d. 18 Jan. 1992, aged 72), who later developed a real estate business in Alexandria, was employed as his skilled herdsman and as a manager in the feed business. Joseph Vaillancourt was married to Imelda Lefebvre. (no children) He died in a Montreal hospital. His funeral was at the Roman Catholic Church, Green Valley, and burial was at Sacré-Coeur cemetery, Alexandria.

Glengarry News 21 May 1970 * Holstein 33, 38, etc.: biog.,1945 sales advert. * tribute to his Holstein herd, Standard Freeholder 24 April 1939 (agricultural supplement) * Eldège Vaillancourt: in Alexandria, real estate broker, obituary: GN 10 Jan. 1963, 26 March 1964, 5 Feb. 1992