GADBOIS, Joseph Romeo (1886- c.1949) was active in Montreal, Que. where he was in partnership with Jean Julien Perrault (see list of works under Perrault & Gadbois). Born in St. Simon, Quebec on 17 April 1886, he commenced practise under his own name in Outremont in 1919 where one of his best known works was the transformation a 19th C. landmark, the residence of Stanley Bagg (built in 1817) to serve as a Town Hall for the City of Outremont (Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 48-51, illus. & descrip). In 1921 he formed a partnership with Jean Julien Perrault, and together they operated a successful practise in Montreal for nearly twenty-five years, specializing in the design of commercial and residential projects (see list of works under Perrault & Gadbois). They collaborated until 1944 or 1945 when their firm was dissolved by mutual agreement. Gadbois himself had joined the P.Q.A.A. in 1931 but resigned from the organization in 1949 (inf. P.Q.A.A., Montreal, Membership records)
(works in Outremont unless noted)
OUTREMONT TOWN HALL, Cote Ste. Catherine Road at Davaar Avenue, 1919, a conversion of , and major addition to, the former residence of Stanley Bagg, originally built in 1817 (Outremont b.p. 1214, 15 July 1919)
KELVIN AVENUE, ROBERT AVENUE, VIMY AVENUE, six pairs of duplex houses for Pierre Guidazio, 1919 (Outremont b.p. 1224, 18 Aug. 1919; Continuite [Quebec City], Autumn 1991, 23, illus.)
AVENUE DE l'EPEE, residence for Pierre Guidazio, 1920 (Outremont b.p. 1302, 12 July 1920)
AVENUE DE l'EPEE, a 12 unit apartment block for Pierre Guidazio, 1920-21; demol. (Outremont b.p. 1325, 29 Nov. 1920; C.R., xxxiv, 15 Dec. 19120, 51)