Austin LaChapelle 1867-1960

Austin Peter LaChapelle 1867-1960

A Thumbnail Biography by David C. Procuniar

Austin Peter LaChapelle, the son of Catharine Procunier & Andrew LaChapelle; married Amelia Leigh on 18 Feb 1903 in West Oxford township. Austin was born in Erie View, Norfolk, Ontario on 11 Feb 1867, died 17 Jan 1960 while living in Windsor, Essex, Ontario. Amelia Leigh was born in Walsingham Twp. West Oxford Co., Winsor, Ontario on Christmas eve 24 Dec 1860, died on 26 Mar 1932 while living in Ingersoll, Ontario.

Children:

Andrew George Leigh LaChapelle 1905-1992

AGL - 1 Mar. 1974 (Edited LJT March 9,1998)

Austin Peter LaChapelle was born February 1,1867 to Andrew LaChapelle and Catherine Procunier at Erie View on the first concession of South Walsingham Township in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.

On February 18,1903 he married Amelia Leigh at her home, Woodside, at the intersection of Highways # 401 & 10. Mary Sparks was the flower girl at the wedding. Austin was a cheese maker at two locations in Dereham Township of Oxford

County,Ontario. The first factory was near Dereham Centre on the seventh concession just west of Highway # 19 on county road # 27. This location was known as the Prouse Cheese Factory. It was at their home adjacent to the factory that their son A.G. Leigh LaChapelle was born.Austin who next operated the New Lawson Cheese Factory on the first concession on county road # 13 about four miles east of Salford., Ont.

In about 1911, Austin, Amelia and Leigh moved to Ochre River,

Manitoba, Canada where he ran a general store and sold

insurance. Later he moved to Minitonasi,Manitoba where he

operated a lumber yard for the Security Lumber Co. In 1920,

Leigh returned to Ingersoll to live with his aunt, Mary Leigh, an

d attend the Ingersoll Collegiate Institute.

Austin and Amelia also lived at Hyas, Saskatchewan. In 1929,

they were in Beadle, Saskatchewan. Their last place in the

west was at Yorkton,Saskatchewan. At these places he ran

the grain elevators.

In 1939 Austin left the west and returned to Tillsonburg where

he lived with Arthur and Estella Abbott. It was in 1939 that

Austin, Leigh and George took a vacation trip to Kirkland

Lake in Northern Ontario. Later,Austin moved to Windsor

where he lived in various rooming houses. Late in 1959,

he was admitted to a Windsor hospital. He died January

17,1960. He was buried in Forestlawn cemetry,

11851 Van Dyke, Detroit, Mich. in lot, 20, Section 14.

AGL - 1 Mar. 1974 (Edited LJT March 9,1998)

Sources:

The Bragonier Family by Georgiana H. Randall 1969.

The Bragunier Family in America by Brittian Bragunier Robinson 1969

First Reformed Church of Hagerstown Maryland church records on LDS micro-film

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