A village at the centre of a rural township
Alexandria is the main service village of North Glengarry, with Main Street carrying the local retail, restaurants and services, and the surrounding township given over to dairy and cash-crop farming, woodlots and rural residential. The community is genuinely bilingual — French and English are both everyday languages here, with a strong Glengarry Scottish heritage layered on top.
Business here runs on reputation and proximity. A contractor, a farm-services supplier or a clinic in Alexandria is competing for households within a fifteen- or twenty-minute drive, not a regional audience.