BENOIT, Joseph E. Alexandre (1876-1949) was active in Montreal where he first practiced in a partnership with Charles E. Fournier in 1896-98 (see list of works under Fournier & Benoit). Born in Montreal in 1876, he studied architecture and construction at the Ecole Polytechnique in that city and graduated in 1898. From 1900 until c. 1910 he lived and worked in St. Jean, Que., then moved to Montreal and maintained an office there until after 1940. He specialised in the planning of school buildings for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montreal, but many of his designs were rudimentary and undistinguished by refinements of architectural scholarship. Benoit died at St. Jean on 15 March 1949 (obit. La Presse [Montreal], 16 March 1949, 36; obit. Montreal Daily Star, 16 March 1949, 19; obit. Gazette [Montreal], 17 March 1949, 13; obit. La Patrie [Montreal], 17 March 1949, 23)
J.E.A. BENOIT (works in Montreal unless noted)
WESTMOUNT, eight cottages for F. Renaud, Arlington Avenue, 1898 (C.R., ix, 20 April 1898, 3)
ST. JEAN, QUE. Post Office, Cartier Street, 1906 (Montreal Daily Star, 23 Oct. 1905, 5, t.c.; Canada, Sessional Papers, 1907, No. 19, Report of the Chief Architect, No. 19, 15-16; La Presse [Montreal], 24 Oct. 1908, 30 illus.)
IBERVILLE, QUE. stores for S. MacDonald, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 3 April 1907, 6)
IBERVILLE, QUE., office building for N. Lord, 1907 (C.R., xviii, 3 April 1907, 6)
ST. DOMINIQUE STREET, near Prince Arthur Street, residence for E. Field, 1910 (Le Prix Courant, 1910, Week No. 11, 40)
OUTREMONT, residence for A. Lemay, McDougall Avenue, 1912 (Outremont b.p. 727, 6 Nov. 1912)
VERDUN, St. Willibrord Roman Catholic Church, Church Avenue, 1913-14 (C.R., xxvii, 26 Nov. 1913, 66)
VERDUN, Roman Catholic Girl's School, Church Street, for the Village of Riviere St. Pierre, 1913 (Montreal Daily Star, 10 May 1913, 36, t.c.)
ECOLE NOTRE DAME DE LA PAIX, Caisse Avenue at Gertrude Street, begun 1913-14; completed 1922 (C.R., xxx, 27 Sept. 1916, 42; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 170-1, illus.)
ACADEMIE ST. JOSEPH, Church Avenue, Verdun, 1914-15 (C.R., xxvii, 30 July 1913, 68; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 274)
ACADEMIE DES ST. ANGES, St. Joseph Boulevard East, a residence adjacent to the school, 1914-15 (Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 274)
OUTREMONT, pair of houses for S.D. Joubert, Springrove Crescent, 1915 (Outremont b.p. 996, 24 August 1915)
VERDUN, St. Willibrord Roman Catholic School, Willibrord Street at Reille Street, Verdun, 1917-18 (C.R., xxxi, 21 Nov. 1917, 34; and xxxii, 30 Oct. 1918, 863, illus. & descrip.)
ACADEMIE RICHARD, the commercial academy on Galt Avenue, major addition, 1919; addition and alterations, 1922 (Montreal Daily Star, 27 March 1919, 3; C.R., xxxiv, 14 July 1920, 49; and xxxvi, 24 May 1922, 54; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 196-99, illus.)
LACHUTE, QUE., Roman Catholic church, 1919 (Montreal Daily Star, 17 May 1919, 36)
VERDUN, St. Mary's Roman Catholic School, 1924 (Montreal Daily Star, 23 April 1924, 3)
ST. JEAN, QUE., a new Town Hall, Public Market, and Fire Station, 1938 (Gazette (Montreal), 7 Sept. 1938, 10)
ST. JEAN, QUE., National Revenue Building, Richelieu Street, 1939 (inf. Gregory Utas, Ottawa)