BROWNE, Fitzjames Ethelbert (1871-1938) was a member of the Browne family architectural dynasty of Montreal who practised architecture in eastern Canada for more than a century. His grandfather was George William Richardson Browne (1811-1885), and his father was John James Browne (1827-1893). Fitzjames was born in Montreal on 22 September 1871 and he attended Lincoln College at Sorel, Que., then trained to become an architect under his father's supervision. After the unexpected death of his father in August 1893, Fitzjames continued the real estate business which had been started in 1891 by his father as a sideline to their architectural practice. First called John James Browne & Son, their company name was changed to 'The House of Browne' after 1910. Most of their activity was devoted to real estate investment, to which Fitzjames was said to have brought '...great aptitude, high qualifications and strict integrity'. His designs for buildings, however, possess none of the distinctive character of the landmark works which his father and his grandfather had designed. By 1914 he appears to have abandoned the architectural profession. Fitzjames continued in the real estate business until 1930 and died in Montreal on 27 June 1938 (obituary and port. Gazette [Montreal], 28 June 1938, 9; Editorial tribute 8; biog. and port. Montreal: The Metropolis of Canada, Illustrated, 1894; biog. W.H. Atherton, Montreal from 1535 to 1914, iii, 579; inf. J. Craig Greene, St. John's, Nfld.)
FITZJAMES E. BROWNE (works in Montreal)
METCALFE STREET, extensive alterations to existing building for Morris Tannenbaum, 1903-04 (C.R., xiv, 9 Dec. 1903, 2)
BISHOP STREET, apartment block for W.E. Philips, 1903-04 (C.R., xiv, 16 Dec. 1903, 3)
TUPPER STREET, four houses for Hon. Senator Owens, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 4 Nov. 1903, 3)
W.D. STROUD & SONS, St. Paul Street at Place d'Youville, store and warehouse, 1904 (Le Prix Courant, 1904, Week No. 17, 49)
NORMAN DANCING ACADEMY & MUSIC HALL, Stanley Street at Cypress Street, for Frank H. Norman, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 31 May 1905, 5)
WILLIS & CO., Ste. Catherine Street West at Drummond Street, office block, 1906 (Montreal Daily Star, 10 Nov. 1906, 2, illus. & descrip.; La Presse [Montreal], 14 Nov. 1906, 2, illus.)
CRAIG STREET, near Bleury Street, building for W.L. Chipchase, 1906 (C.R., xvi, 3 Jan. 1906, 2)
BRIGHTON APARTMENTS, Mayor Street, for William Meikle, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 17 March 1909, 21)
SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, near Guy Street, residence for Fred A. Lallemand, 1909 (Le Prix Courant, 1909, Week No. 20, 40)
SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, near Cote des Neiges Road, four tenements for Sterling Realty Co., 1909 (Le Prix Courant, 1909, Week No. 21, 42)
LAGAUCHETIERE STREET, tenement for Rev. T.F. Heffernan, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 18 May 1910, 28)
MARLIN APARTMENTS, Dorchester Avenue West at MacKay Street, for J.B. Stephenson, 1910 (C.R., xxiv, 29 June 1910, 26)
KERR LTD, Cathcart Street, factory and warehouse for Robert Kerr and William M. Kerr, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 27 March 1912, 73)
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, St. Henri Street, 1914 (C.R., xxviii, 28 Jan. 1914, 37)