BEAULE, Oscar (1889-1960) was born in Quebec City but did not receive a formal education in architecture. Instead, much of his knowledge of the profession came from his training under David Ouellet, in whose office he articled from 1908 to 1912. He then continued his training in the office of Rene P. Lemay in 1913-15. Beaule joined the Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects in 1913 and operated his practice in Quebec City under his own name from late 1915 onward. In 1923 he invited J. Albert Morissette to form a partnership, and they continued to work together until after 1950 specializing in the design of institutional and ecclesiastical work for several Roman Catholic dioceses. Beaule was a respected member of the profession and elected by his colleagues in 1946 as President of the Prov. of Quebec Assoc. of Architects. He died in Quebec City on 27 December 1960 (obit. l'Action Catholique [Quebec City], 28 Dec. 1960, 17; obit. and port. Le Soleil [Quebec City], 28 Dec. 1960, 26; biography and port. Financial Post [Toronto], 6 April 1946, 6)
O. BEAULE
(works in Quebec City unless noted)
COMMISSAIRES STREET, tenement for de Roy Louis, 1915-16 (Quebec City b.p. 1929, 15 Nov. 1915)
PATRONAGE LAVAL, Bigaouette Avenue at St. Leon Street, chapel, 1915-16 (Quebec City b.p. 1952, 24 Nov. 1915)
CLAIRE FONTAINE STREET, tenement for Boisvert & St. Laurent, 1915-16 (Quebec City b.p. 1979, 9 Dec. 1915)
NOTRE DAME DES ANGES STREET, at Place Jacques Cartier, store for Estate of F.X. Huet, 1917 (Quebec City b.p. 3525, 18 June 1917)
SULLY, QUE., Roman Catholic church and presbytery, 1918 (C.R., xxxii, 6 Nov. 1918, 37, t.c.)
GRANDE ALLEE, house for Elzear Letourneau, 1919; demol. c. 1970 (Quebec City b.p. 4760, 2 July 1919; D. Blanchet, Decouvir la Grande Allee, 1984, 173, illus.)
DAUPHINE STREET, chalet and squash court for Napolean Lavoie, 1919 (Quebec City b.p. 4911, 26 Aug. 1919)
(with Alfred Lamontagne) CHICOUTIMI, QUE., Ste. Francois Xavier Roman Catholic Cathedral and a new sacristy, Racine Street East, designed 1919 to replace the cathedral which burned in January 1919, and built in 1921-22 (C.R., xxxiii, 5 March 1919, 52; Montreal Daily Star, 26 March 1919, 3)
(with Charles Bernier and J.T. Nadeau) EGLISE ST. SACRAMENT, Ste. Foye Road, 1920 (l'Action Catholique [Quebec City], 25 June 1920, 1 & 8, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xxxiv, 17 March 1920, 59, xxxix, 2 Nov. 1925, 960-61, illus. & descrip.)
RIMOUSKI, QUE., major alterations to Roman Catholic Cathedral, 1920 (C.R., xxxiv, 18 Aug. 1920, 52)
RIMOUSKI, QUE., Roman Catholic school, 1921 (Le Prix Courant, liv, 18 Feb. 1921, 48)
PROVIDENCE HOUSE, Marie de l'Incarnation Street at Ste. Therese Street, major addition, 1921 (Quebec City b.p. 5950, 2 May 1921)
BEAULE & MORISSETTE
(works in Quebec City unless noted)
ST. LOUIS ROAD, house for William Doyle, 1923 (Quebec City b.p. 8462, 18 July 1923)
(with G.E. Tanguay) PALAIS DE JUSTICE, St. Louis Street, new Annex, 1924 (C.R., xxxviii, 19 March 1924, 55)
(with Stevens & Lee) ST. SACREMENT ROMAN CATHOLIC HOSPITAL, Ste. Foye Road, 1924-27 (l'Evenement [Quebec City], 31 Aug. 1927, 11-12, illus. & descrip.)
HOTEL DIEU, Cote du Palais, major additions, 1924, addition of two wings, 1929-30 (C.R., xxxviii, 12 March 1924, 49; xliii, 12 June 1929, 114; Quebec City b.p. 8973, 17 March 1924; b.p. 4202, 23 May 1930; L. Noppen et al, Quebec: trois siecles d'architecture, 1979, 215, illus.)
d'YOUVILLE APARTMENTS, St. Jean Street, for Napoleon Bedard, 1924 (Quebec City b.p. 9046, 15 April 1924)
QUEBEC LIQUOR COMMISSION, St. Andre Street at Dalhousie Street, 1924 (Quebec City b.p. 8909, 7 June 1924)
EDMUNSTON, N.B., Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, designed 1926-27; built 1940 (C.R., xl, 8 Dec. 1926, 50; liii, 5 June 1940, 20; J. Leroux, Building New Brunswick-An Architectural History, 2008, 158, illus.; Jacques Robert, "Jean-Thomas Nadeau - Le Rationalisme au Service du Renouveau De l'Architecture Religieuse a Quebec au Debut du XXe Siecle", in Lucie Morisset, The Architecture of Identity, 2020, 249, illus. & descrip.)
HOLLAND AVENUE, house for Mrs. Thomas Sampson, 1927 (Quebec City b.p. 1307, 11 July 1927)
11th STREET, tenement for Lucien Gagnon, 1928 (Quebec City b.p. 2554, 25 Sept. 1928)
1st AVENUE, tenement for Paul Beaubien, 1929 (Quebec City b.p. 2987, 8 May 1929)
BRIDGE STREET, at Ste. Marguerite Street, store and workshop for Marier & Tremblay, 1929 (Quebec City b.p. 3488, 26 Aug. 1929; C.R., xliii, 11 Sept. 1929, 66)
d'AIGUILLON STREET, at Abraham Hill, apartment block for M. Shapiro, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 16 Oct. 1929, 65, t.c.)
VAL BRILLANT, QUE., completion of St. Pierre Roman Catholic church begun in 1914 by Rene P. Lemay (Continuite, No. 47, Spring 1991, 44)
(with Lorenzo Auger) PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, the 'D' Building Annex, St. Augustin Street near St. Julie Street, 1932-33 (C.R., xlviii, 22 Aug. 1934, 32, t.c.; L. Noppen et al, Quebec: trois siecles d'architecture, 1979, 271, illus.)
ESTCOURT, QUE., girl's school for the Sisters of St. Joseph, 1940 (C.R., liii, 26 June 1940, 18)
CAISSE d'ECONOMIE, 1939 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xvii, May 1940, 78, illus.)
(with Louis N. Audet) SHERBROOKE, QUE., Hotel Dieu Roman Catholic Hospital, Bowen Street at Woodward Street, 1943 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, Oct. 1950, 21, illus. in advert.)
ST. BASILE, N.B., Roman Catholic Hospital for the Sisters of St. Joseph, 1944 (C.R., lvii, 12 July 1944, 27; J. Leroux, Building New Brunswick-An Architectural History, 2008, 164, illus.)
STE. FOYE ROAD, school buildings for the Brothers of St. Vincent de Paul, 1946 (C.R., lix, May 1946, 120)
BELL TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, St. Cyrille Street at Holland Street, 1946 (C.R., lix, Nov. 1946, 102; Architecture Batiment Construction, iv, Aug. 1949, 26-7, illus.)
EDMUNDSTON, N.B., Town Hall and Fire Station, 1948 (C.R., lxi, May 1948, 174)
LAVAL, QUE., Ste. Brigitte Roman Catholic Church, 1949 (C.R., lxii, Feb. 1949, 151; Architecture Batiment Construction, v, June 1950, 36, illus.)
RIVIERE DU LOUP, QUE., Bell Telephone Exchange, 1949 (C.R., lxii, May 1949, 166)
CHARLESBOURG, QUE., Bell Telephone Exchange, 1949 (C.R., lxii, Nov. 1949, 126; Architecture Batiment Construction, iv, Aug. 1949, 28, illus.)
LEVIS, QUE., Bell Telephone Exchange, 1949 (C.R., lxii, May 1949, 164)