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J. Edgar Violette

J. Edgar Violette

Male 1907 - 1985  (77 years)

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  • Name J. Edgar Violette 
    Birth 6 Oct 1907  St. Leonard-Parent, NB Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening 6 Oct 1907  St. Leonard-Parent, NB Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 9 Aug 1985  Edmundston, NB Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Cathedrale de I'Immaculee-Conception, Edmundston, NB Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID P32  Violette Family
    Last Modified 29 Dec 2023 

    Father Come Violette,   b. 28 Apr 1862, St. Leonard-Parent, NB Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Oct 1934, St. Leonard, NB Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Relationship Sealing 
    Mother Flavie Cyr,   b. 11 Feb 1868, St. Leonard, NB Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Nov 1942, St. Leonard, NB Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Relationship Sealing 
    Marriage 14 Nov 1887  Ste-Anne-de-Madawaska, NB Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F25  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ida Marie Doucet,   b. 2 Sep 1911, St. Leonard-Parent, NB Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Oct 1997, Edmundston, NB Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 29 Sep 1931  St. Leonard, NB Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • DOM: Genealogies of the Catholic Families of Maine, New Brunswick, and the Province of Quebec
    Children 
     1. Rodrigue (Rod) Ronald Violette
     2. Hilda Laurette Violette,   b. 17 Jan 1937, St. Leonard, NB Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Mar 2018, Arroyo Grande, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     3. Douglas Edgar Violette,   b. 7 Dec 1938, South Devon, Fredericton, NB Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 May 1993, Sept-Iles, QC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
    Family ID F26  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • DOB: Lippe pg 186 & Poitras pg 163
      DOD: Poitras & Obituary

      Edgar was a bus driver for the SMT Company. He first drove city busses in Fredericton, NB then drove the St. John to Edmundston route from St. John.
      After WWII broke out, he moved his family to Montreal and test drove Sherman Mk IV tanks. Then worked at Laurentide Heavy Equipment Co. selling bulldozers, tractors, steamshovels and other heavy equipment.

      In 1943 he received a call from K.C. Irving the owner of the SMT Bus Co. to start up new routes out of Moncton, NB. He started with two drivers and in a very short time he had hired 52 drivers. He was then asked by Mr. Irving to manage the Irving Oil distribution facility at Moncton. After doing that he was asked to manage and supervise the SMT Bus Co. in the northern half of the province of New Brunswick. That precipitated a move to St. Leonard, NB.

      He was then offered a job by his brother-in-law, Bert Berube who was a senior V.P. of the CNR for Eastern Canada, to manage all CNR motor vehicles in the Maritime provinces. That would have required a move back to Moncton and his wife was reluctent to move.

      He spent the remainder of his working career at the Frazer paper mill in Madawaska, Maine, but living in Edmundston, NB.