LEBLANC, George Lucien Emile (1893-1966) was active in Montreal, Que. and in Ottawa, Ont. where he maintained a practise for nearly forty years. Born in Montreal on 4 September 1893 he served his apprenticeship with A.H. Lapierre (in 1909-14), and with Eugene Payette (in 1914-15) and assisted Payette with the design and construction of his competition-winning scheme for the Bibliotheque St. Sulpice in Montreal. From 1914 to 1920 he attended courses at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, then joined both the P.Q.A.A. and R.A.I.C. in 1921. Leblanc worked in the architectural department of the Banque Canadianne Nationale in 1920-24, then spent three years in the office of Joseph Sawyer (1924-27), followed by three years with architectural department of Bell Telephone Co. head office in Montreal. During this period he began to accept private commissions for residential projects in Outremont and elsewhere, In 1930 or 1931 he moved his office to Ottawa, Ont. where he carried out three projects on the campus of the University of Ottawa, as well as completing plans for more than a dozen schools for the local Roman Catholic diocese.
After 1955 he moved to Cornwall, Ont. where he was in partnership with James M. Martin. Leblanc died at Cornwall, Ont. on 17 June 1966 (death notice Le Droit [Ottawa], 18 June 1966, 29; inf. Prov. of Quebec Association of Architects; inf. Ontario Association of Architects). A biography of Leblanc, together with a photographic portrait and a list of his works, appeared in Le Droit [Ottawa], 27 March 1937, 7 and 6).
MONTREAL
OUTREMONT, eight pairs of houses for J.H. Demers, Hazelwood Avenue, 1926 (Outremont b.p. 2080, 9 June 1926; b.p. 2136, 21 Oct. 1926)
OUTREMONT, four pairs of houses for J.H. Demers, Hazelwood Avenue, 1927 (Outremont b.p. 2220, 28 June 1927)
OUTREMONT, row of seven triplex houses for Felix Perrault, Rockland Avenue, 1928; demol. (Outremont b.p.2332, 15 March 1928)
DECARIE BOULEVARD, apartment house for E.L. Beaudry, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 2 May 1928, 58)
OUTREMONT, residence for F.A. Lambert, Maplewood Avenue, 1928 (Outremont b.p. 2415, 6 July 1928)
OUTREMONT, four pairs of houses for A.M. Wentworth, Hartland Avenue, 1928-29 (Outremont b.p. 2498, 13 Dec. 1928)
ST. DENIS STREET, near Belanger Street, commercial block for Peter Dragonas, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 24 July 1929, 60, t.c.)
OUTREMONT, semi-detached triplex houses for J.B. Valiquette, 1929-30 (Outremont b.p. 2632, 30 Dec. 1929)
OUTREMONT, duplex for P. Segal, Wiseman Avenue, 1930 (Outremont b.p. 2670, 13 May 1930)
OTTAWA
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, major addition to the Normal School, Wilbrod Street at Waller Street, 1931 (Ottawa Journal, 9 March 1931, 2, descrip.; C.R., xlv, 2 Sept. 1931, 49)
GARNEAU ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Cumberland Street, 1931 (Ottawa Journal, 9 March 1931, 2, descrip.)
DUHAMEL ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Guigues Avenue at Cumberland Street, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 27 April 1932, 57, t.c.)
ST. FRANCOIS d'ASSISE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Stirling Avenue, 1933-34 (C.R., xlviii, 18 April 1934, 34, t.c.)
BLACKBURN APARTMENTS, Somerset Street West near Elgin Street, a five storey apartment block for Henri Blackburn, 1934-36 (C.R., xlviii, 18 April 1934, 34, t.c.; Evening Journal [Ottawa], 14 Feb. 1934, 4, descrip.; 5 March 1936, 1, descrip.; 2 Oct. 1936, 15, illus. & descrip.)
DALY AVENUE, near Wurtemburg Street, residence for H. Berlin, 1934 (Ottawa Journal, 26 June 1934, 18, descrip.)
SACRE COEUR ROMAN CATHOLIC CONVENT, for the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, Oblate Avenue, major addition, 1935 (C.R., xlix, 27 March 1935, 84; Ottawa Journal, 8 May 1935, 1; 18 Nov. 1935, 23, descrip.)
ST. MARGARET MARY ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Bellwood Avenue at Carleton Avenue, c. 1935 (Le Droit [Ottawa], 27 March 1937, 6 & 7, list of works)
ST. PIERRE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Friel Street, c. 1935 (Le Droit [Ottawa], 27 March 1937, 6 & 7, list of works)
ROTHIER ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Guigues Avenue, c. 1935 (Le Droit [Ottawa], 27 March 1937, 6 & 7, list of works)
CLARENCE STREET, apartment block for Mrs. R. DeBartelo, 1936 (Ottawa Journal, 26 June 1936, 11)
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, Faculty Hall, Clegg Street at Main Street, 1936 (C.R., vol. 50, 13 May 1936, 36, t.c.)
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, a Roman Catholic Seminary, on the property of the Oblate Fathers, Main Street, Ottawa East, 1936 (Ottawa Journal, 18 June 1936, 14)
ST. DOMINIQUE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Eccles Street near LeBreton Street, 1936 (Ottawa Journal, 23 July 1936, 3, descrip.; C.R., Vol. 50, 22 July 1936, 31, t.c.)
ST. ALOYSIUS ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Keefer Street at Stanley Street, 1936 (Ottawa Journal, 23 July 1936, 3, descrip.)
JUNIORATE OF THE SACRED HEART, for the Oblate Fathers, Hastey Avenue at Laurier Avenue East, major addition located beside the existing school, 1937 (Ottawa Journal, 19 May 1937, 1; 3 June 1937, 4, descrip.)
DEPT. OF MINES & RESOURCES, Booth Street, major addition to the fuel testing laboratory, 1937 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 21 Aug. 1937, 1)
COOPER STREET, near Bay Street, small apartment block for Gabriel Epstein, 1938 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 10 June 1938, 14)
OTTAWA ROMAN CATHOLIC SEMINARY, Rideau Terrace at Springfield Road, 1939-40 (Le Droit [Ottawa], 27 March 1937, 6 & 7, list of works; C.R., lii, 12 July 1939, 35)
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA NORMAL SCHOOL, Wilbrod Street, c. 1938 (Le Droit [Ottawa], 27 March 1937, 6 & 7, list of works)
GOOD SHEPHERD ROMAN CATHOLIC CONVENT, St. Andrew Street, major addition, 1938-39 (C.R., li, 14 Sept. 1938, 142)
METCALFE TERRACE APARTMENTS, Metcalfe Street, between Frank Street and Gladstone Avenue, two identical three-storey brick apartment buildings for C.J. Ceappy, 1939 (Ottawa Journal, 17 June 1939, 12)
WALDO APARTMENTS, Laurier Avenue East at Henderson Avenue, a four storey apartment block for Waldo Guertin, 1940 (Ottawa Journal, 15 May 1940, 13, descrip.)
POWELL AVENUE, apartment block for Isadore L. Arron, 1941 (C.R., liv, 12 March 1941, 36)
CLARENCE STREET, apartment block for J.R. Barnaby, 1941 (C.R., liv, 26 March 1941, 34)
BILLINGS BRIDGE, a Roman Catholic Separate School for the Gloucester Separate School Board, Section 367, 1944 (Ottawa Journal, 29 June 1944, 21, t.c.)
SLATER STREET, between Elgin Street and Metcalfe Street, a three storey auto garage for M. Landreville, 1947 (Ottawa Journal, 17 May 1947, 8, descrip.)
ST. ELIJAH ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, Lyon Street, 1949-50 (Andrew Waldron, Exploring the Capital: An Architectural Guide to the Ottawa-Gatineau Region, 2017, 66-7, illus. & descrip.)
ELSEWHERE
HULL, QUE., major addition to the Normal School, with enlargement of the chapel, and new academic hall, Notre Dame Street, 1931 (Ottawa Journal, 9 March 1931, 2, descrip.; C.R., xlv, 18 March 1931, 61)
HULL, QUE., college for the Jesuit Fathers, Aylmer Road, 1931-32 (C.R., xlv, 30 Sept. 1931, 168, t.c.)
MONTEBELLO, QUE., major addition to the Roman Catholic Church, 1932 (Ottawa Journal, 31 May 1932, 1)
HULL, QUE., Avalon Hotel, for Alphonse Moussette, Chelsea Road, 1932 (Ottawa Journal, 3 June 1932, 2; 31 Oct. 1932, 17, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xlvi, 13 July 1932, 46)
MEMRAMCOOK, N.B., St. Joseph's Roman Catholic College, new buildings to replace those destroyed in a fire in 1933 (C.R., xlviii, 25 April 1934, 358)
AYLMER, QUE., new arena and sports hall on the Aylmer Road, near the Connaught Park Racetrack, 1938 (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 15 June 1938, 1, descrip.)
KAPUSKASING, ONT., Post Office, Circle Street, 1939 (inf. Edgar Tumak, Parks Canada, Ottawa)
(with Auguste Martineau) ST. ANDREW'S WEST, ONT., Roman Catholic School for the Sisters of St. Joseph, 1941 (C.R., liv, 30 July 1941, 28)
CORNWALL, ONT., Roman Catholic School, 1949 (C.R., lx, May 1949, 156)
MANIWAKI, QUE., theatre for M. Therien, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, April 1950, 131)