Leger, Frank J.

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. (Morning Chronicle [Halifax], 1 Jan. 1906, 6). 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, BOUCTOUCHE, N.B., 1926-27 (C.R., xl, 19 May 1926, 47; xli, 1 June 1927, 48). Nearly ten years later, both Leger and Frechet are recorded as the designers for a new hotel for the Community Hotel Committee on Main Street, GLACE BAY, N.S. (C.R., vol. 50, 24 March 1937, 54). 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; biog. M. Rosinski, Architects of Nova Scotia: A Biographical Dictionary, 1994, 246). His younger brother William P. Leger was also an architect.