Ernest Cormier

See also: Cormier (homonymy)

Ernest Cormier was a Architecte, Engineer, Professor and Aquarelliste Québécois born in 1885 and deceased in 1980.

Wire of doctor, Cormier studies civil engineering at the Polytechnic school of Montreal. Its diploma obtained in 1906, it works in the research department of the Dominion Company Bridge in Montreal. In 1909, it continues its formation at the School of the fine arts of Paris where he is pupil of Jean-Louis Pascal. In 1914, he is the member elect of Henry Jarvis Studenship decreed by the Royal Institute off British Architects. Thanks to its price of British Rome, Cormier spends two years in the Eternal City where it improves in contact with the old monuments. Of return to Paris in January 1917, it is employed firm of engineers Considère, Pelnard and Caquot, from the specialists in the concrete, and obtains the diploma for the occupation of architect of French government (DPLG).

Professor at the Polytechnic school of Montreal (1921 - 1954).

Its house, which it drew and made build in 1930-31 on the avenue of the Pines in Montreal, was classified historic building by the Québécois Government in 1974, and was repurchased by the former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the years 1980.

The Ernest-Cormier esplanade located opposite the Canadian Center of architecture honors its memory.

Works

New Law courts (Montreal, street Notre-Dame Are, 1922 - 1925, with Louis-Auguste Amos and Charles Jewett Saxony), transformed into 2003 to become the seat of the Court of Appeal of Quebec
the old School of the Art schools (Montreal, currently the House of Arts of the UQAM, with J. - Omer Marchand)
the Saint-Marguerite-Marie-Alacoque church (Montreal, street Ontario Is, close to Lorimier, style Romance, 1924 - 1925)
the rebuilding of the town hall (Montreal, 1922 - 1926, with J. - L. - D. Lafrenière, J. - Commercial Omer, Dalbé Viau, Louis-Alphonse Venne, Louis Avoiding, Louis-Auguste Amos)
the University of Montreal (Montreal, on the boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, 1926 - 1943)
doors of the building of the General meeting of the United Nations in New York, 1947
the building of the Supreme court of Canada (Ottawa, 1938 -?)
the building of the HMSO (Gatineau, 1950 - 1958, boulevard Sacred Heart)
the Great seminar of Quebec, on the campus of the University Laval (Quebec, 1957 - 1969

Works of Ernest Cormier are presented in the film the Garden of the shades, (1993).

Distinctions

1942 - Honoris Causa Doctorate of the University of Montreal
1948 - Order of Merit of the Polytechnic school
1953 - Price Urgel-Archambault of ACFAS
1974 - Officer of the Order of Canada

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