LEGER, Frank J. (1879-1955), active in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from 1906 onward. Leger was born at Cape Bald, New Brunswick on 9 November 1879 but nothing is known of his education or training. His first architectural commission appears to be that for the Roman Catholic School, Chandler Street, AMHERST, N.S. By 1926 he had moved to Moncton, N.B. where he worked as a draftsman and collaborator with Rene A. Frechet. Both Leger & Frechet are listed as the architects for the Roman Catholic Church, BUCTOUCHE, (later renamed Bouctouche), N.B., 1926-27. Nearly ten years later, both Leger and Frechet are recorded as the designers for a new hotel for the Community Hotel Committee, Main Street, GLACE BAY, N.S. Leger later moved to Saint John, N.B. and continued to work there until after 1950. He died in Moncton, N.B. on 13 September 1955 (obit. Moncton Transcript, 15 Sept. 1955; 16; biog. M. Rosinski, Architects of Nova Scotia: A Biographical Dictionary, 1994, 246). His younger brother William P. Leger was also an architect.
AMHERST, N.S., Roman Catholic School, Chandler Street, 1906 (Morning Chronicle [Halifax], 1 Jan. 1906, 6)
BUCTOUCHE, N.B., St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church, Irving Boulevard at Church Street, begun 1926-27, completed 1954 (Telegraph-Journal [Saint John], 25 May 1926, 3, C.R., xl, 19 May 1926, 47; and xli, 1 June 1927, 48)
GLACE BAY, N.S., hotel for the Community Hotel Committee, Main Street, (C.R., vol. 50, 24 March 1937, 54)