{"id":581,"date":"2025-01-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/?p=581"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:06:01","slug":"le-club-richelieu-honore-alfred-lefebvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/le-club-richelieu-honore-alfred-lefebvre\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Lefebvre honoured by Club Richelieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GLefebvre.jpg\" alt=\"G\u00e9rald Lefebvre, doyen du Club Richelieu et petit-fils d\u2019Alfred Lefebvre, participe au d\u00e9voilement du troph\u00e9e institu\u00e9 \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire de son grand-p\u00e8re. (Photo : Club Richelieu )\" class=\"wp-image-582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GLefebvre.jpg 628w, https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GLefebvre-480x783.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 628px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>G\u00e9rald Lefebvre, Dean of Club Richelieu and grandson of Alfred Lefebvre, took part in the unveiling of the trophy established in memory of his grandfather.<\/em><br>(Photo : Club Richelieu )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the Club Richelieu celebrated the historic contribution of Mr. Alfred Lefebvre, one of its founding members, during their meeting on Tuesday, January 14. An honourary trophy, designed in memory of this public-spirited legendary entrepreneur, was unveiled to highlight his role in the creation of the service club in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to records, the first meetings were held at the former Hotel Royal on Montreal Road. This marked the beginning of a gathering of French-speaking businessmen, as well as the arrival of Cornwall\u2019s first entirely French-language club. Since that day, thanks to the generosity of its benefactors, Club Richelieu has invested over a million dollars into the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the evening, G\u00e9rald Lefebvre, himself a former owner of the Parkway Hotel, took the opportunity to share several amusing anecdotes about his illustrious grandfather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trophy was presented to one of the sponsoring teams in recognition of its community spirit during the Coupe Richelieu charity hockey tournament, which took place at the Lumley Arena on Saturday, January 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornwallseawaynews.com\/local\/alfred-lefebvre-honoured-by-club-richelieu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cornwallseawaynews.com\/lexpress\/alfred-lefebvre-honore-par-le-club-richelieu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This article was originally published here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les membres du Club Richelieu ont soulign\u00e9 la contribution historique de M. Alfred Lefebvre, l\u2019un de ses membres fondateurs, lors de leur r\u00e9union du mardi 14 janvier. En effet, un troph\u00e9e honorifique con\u00e7u \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire de cet entrepreneur l\u00e9gendaire et engag\u00e9 fut d\u00e9voil\u00e9 afin de souligner son r\u00f4le dans la cr\u00e9ation du club de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presses","category-media-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrichelieucornwall.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}