BERNIER, Charles (1866-1930), a successful architect in Montreal, Que. for nearly 40 years. He was a member of the following offices:
Charles Bernier, Montreal, 1889 to 1894
Bernier & Brodeur, Montreal, 1899 to 1902 (with Charles Brodeur)
Bernier & Giroux, Montreal, 1902-03 (with J.E.A. Giroux)
Bernier & Mesnard, Montreal, 1903 to 1908 (with Albert Mesnard)
Charles Bernier, Montreal, 1908 to 1927
(biography in preparation)
C. BERNIER (works in Montreal unless noted)
QUEBEC CITY, P.Q., residence and stables for Richard S. Tozer and William A. Tozer, St. Vallier Street, 1889 (Quebec City b.p. 3348, 8 June 1889)
ST. JEAN PORT JOLI, QUE., residence for an unnamed client, c.1890 (C. Cameron & J. Wright, Second Empire Style in Canadian Architecture, 1980, 212-13, illus.)
ST. ELIZABETH STREET, tenement for Louis Gendreau, 1894 (C.R., v, 31 May 1894, 2)
NOTRE DAME STREET, store and dwelling for J.B. Decelles, 1894 (C.R., v, 12 July 1894, 2)
BEAUDRY STREET, tenement for Mrs. Jospeh Lachapelle, 1894 (C.R., v, 30 Aug. 1894, 2)
NOTRE DAME STREET WEST, tenement for J.B. de Seve, 1894 (Le Prix Courant, xiv, 31 Aug. 1894, 782)
NOTRE DAME STREET WEST, at l'Allemand Avenue, three stores and apartments for Amable l'Allemand, 1894 (Le Prix Courant, xv, 14 Sept. 1894, 56)
NOTRE DAME STREET WEST, at Fulford Street, two stores and apartments for Amable l'Allemand, 1894 (Le Prix Courant, xv, 14 Sept. 1894, 56)
STE. CATHERINE STREET WEST, three stores and apartments for Amable l'Allemand, 1894 (Le Prix Courant, xv, 14 Sept. 1894, 56)
BEAUPORT, QUE., residence for Gaudais Parent, 1894 (Le Prix Courant, xv, 14 Sept. 1894, 56)
BERNIER & BRODEUR (works in Montreal unless noted)
SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, at Cadieux Street, residence for Ferdinand Tremblay, 1899 (C.R., x, 23 Aug. 1899, 3)
HULL, QUE., Police & Fire Station, 1900 (C.R., xi, 15 Aug. 1900, 2)
HULL, QUE., Faulkner's Store, Main Street, 1900 (C.R., xi, 3 Oct. 1900, 3, t.c.)
UNIVERSITY STREET, residence for Adolphe Duperrault, 1901 (C.R., xi, 30 Jan. 1901, 3)
NOTRE DAME STREET WEST, near Vinet Street, store for J.H. Nault, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 12 March 1902, 3)
BERNIER & GIROUX (works in Montreal unless noted)
BRITANNIA APARTMENTS, Crescent Street, 1902 (Le Prix Courant, xxxiii, Week No. 16, 1902; Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 120-3, illus.)
RIVARD STREET, residence for Eugene Charbonneau, 1902 (C.R., xiii, 30 July 1902, 2)
ST. EUSTACHE, QUE., reconstruction of the residence of Charles A.M. Globensky, 1902-03 (inf. from Laurence Hettel, St. Eustache)
SHERBROOKE STREET EAST, nar Berri Street, residence for Adrien S. Lavallee, 1903 (C.R., xiv, 25 March 1903, 4)
BERNIER & MESNARD (works in Montreal unless noted)
EGLISE ST. IRENEE, Atwater Avenue at Delisle Street, 1903-04; burned 1911; rebuilt by MacDuff & Lemieux (La Presse [Montreal, 27 Dec. 1902, 11, illus. & descrip.; 26 Sept. 1903, 10, illus. & descrip.; Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 222-25, illus.)
(with Charles A. Reeves) EGLISE DU TRES-SAINT-NOM-DE-JESUS, Adam Street at Desjardins Avenue, 1903-06 (La Presse [Montreal], 1 July 1904, 1, illus. & descrip.; Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 456-61, illus.)
EGLISE ST. JACQUES, Ste. Catherine Street East near Berri Street, presbytery for the church, 1905 (C.R., xvi, 12 April 1905, 6)
STE. ELIZABETH ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Ste. Elizabeth de Portugal Street at Notre Dame Street, 1906 (Le Prix Courant, Week No. 16, 1906, 44)
ST. IRENEE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Delisle Street, 1906 (Le Prix Courant, Week No. 16, 1906, 44-6)
ST. DENIS STREET, near Roy Street, house for the Emery Lavigne Estate, 1907 (Le Prix Courant, Week No. 17, 1907, 60)
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS SCHOOL, St. James Street near College Street, 1909 (Le Prix Courant, Week 29, 1909, 40)
C. BERNIER (works in Montreal unless noted)
SHERBROOKE STREET EAST, at St. Andre Street, residence for Louis Deguise, 1908 (Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 192-3, illus.)
ST. HENRI, Asylum for the Aged for the Grey Nuns, 1908 (C.R., xix, 13 May 1908, 19)
ST. LOUIS APARTMENTS, Park Avenue at Young Street, for Isidore Crepeau, 1908 (C.R., xxii, 18 Nov. 1908, 25)
BERRI STREET, tenement for N. Deslauriers, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 6 Jan. 1909, 22)
ACADEMIE DES SAINTS ANGES, St. Joseph Boulevard East, 1908-09 (Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 274-77, illus.)
CAMPBELL'S CLOTHING CO., McGill College Avenue, factory, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 3 February 1909, 22)
PARK AVENUE, three tenements for Napolean Deslauriers, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 10 Feb. 1909, 21)
ECOLE ST. JOSEPH, St. Joseph Street, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 28 July 1909, 21)
COTE DES NEIGES ROAD, Roman Catholic school, 1909-10 (C.R., xxiii, 1 Dec. 1909, 21)
HOPITAL DES INCURABLES, Cote St. Luc Road, major 3 storey addition, 1909 (La Presse [Montreal], 19 Aug. 1909, 1, illus. & descrip.; Montreal, Les Couvents, 1984, 156-9, illus.; inf. Yves Guillet, St. Lambert, Que.)
ACADEMIE STE. FAMILLE, Lorimier Avenue, 1910 (Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1910, 268-71, illus.)
POINTE-AUX-TREMBLES, QUE., Roman Catholic church for the Peres du St. Sacrement, 1910 (La Presse [Montreal], 14 May 1910, 21, illus. & descrip.)
GREEK CATHOLIC ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL, Notre Dame Street East, 1910 (La Presse [Montreal], 27 Sept. 1910, 2, illus. & descrip.)
GAUVIN BUILDING & ARCADE THEATRE, Ste. Catherine Street East at Maisonneauve Street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 21 June 1911, 47, descrip.; La Patrie [Montreal], 16 Dec. 1911, 37, illus. & descrip.; La Presse [Montreal], 23 March 1912, 37, illus. & descrip.; Montreal, Les Magasins Les Cinemas, 1985, 184-6, 346-8, illus.)
ST. HYACINTHE, QUE., normal school for the Notre Dame Convent, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 5 April 1911, 55, t.c.; La Presse [Montreal], 6 May 1911, 11, illus.; L. Voyer, St. Hyacinthe, 1980, 84, illus.)
ACADEMIE GUAY, Chabot Street at Bellechasse Street, 1912 (Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 52-3, illus.)
ELMWOOD AVENUE, residence for Dr. L.O. Bournival, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 26 Nov. 1913, 74)
ACADEMIE PROULX, Parthenais Street, 1913-14 (C.R., xxvii, 3 Sept. 1913, 72; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 188-91, illus.)
OUTREMONT, residence for A.S. Lavallee, Ainslie Avenue, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 9 July 1913, 71)
EGLISE ST. MARC, Beaubien Street East, 1914 (Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 324-7, illus.)
EGLISE NOTRE-DAME-DE-GRACE, Notre Dame de Grace Avenue, restoration of the interior, 1915 (Monteal, Les Eglises, 1981, 112-17, illus.)
ACADEMIE DE MARIE IMMACULEE, Marie Anne Street East at Garnier Street, 1915 (Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 122-5, illus.)
ECOLE DE LORIMIER, Gilford Street at Lorimier Avenue, 1916 (Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 86-7, illus.)
EXCELSIOR APARTMENTS, Park Avenue near St. Viateur Avenue, 1916-17 (Montreal, Les Appartements, 1991, 272-4, illus.)
EGLISE ST. JACQUES, St. Denis Street at Ste. Catherine Street, restoration of the interior, security vault, rosary room and lateral sacristies, 1919-20; burned 1933 (O. Maurault, St. Jacques de Montreal, 1923, 61-3, descrip.; Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 226-31, illus.)
(with Oscar Beaule and J.T. Nadeau) QUEBEC CITY, QUE., 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.; L. Noppen et al, Quebec - trois siecles d'architecture, 1979, 195, illus.)
EGLISE STE. BRIGIDE, Alexandre De Seve Street, interior decoration and lighting, 1921 (Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 414)
PENSIONNAT ST. BASILE, Mount Royal Avenue East at Berri Street, addition of two new floors and major extension along Berri Street, 1923 (Montreal, Les Couvents, 1984, 330-3, illus.)
OUTREMONT, residence for N. Deslauriers, Peronne Avenue, 1923-24 (C.R., xxxvii, 12 Dec. 1923, 55)
VALLYFIELD, QUE., Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, 1927 (Daily Journal of Commerce [Toronto], 13 Aug. 1927, 5)
COMPETITIONS
HULL, QUE., City Hall, 1901. The office of Bernier & Giroux was one of seven firms who submitted designs for this public building (Evening Journal [Ottawa], 16 May 1901, 9). The competition was later won by Charles Brodeur of Hull, Que.