DROUIN, Jean Charles (1887-1951), an architect active in Quebec City and in partnership with Wilfrid Lacroix (see list of works under Lacroix & Drouin). Born in Montreal on 31 July 1887, he was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique in that city and graduated in 1911. That same year he collaborated with his classmate at the Ecole, Fernand Prefontaine, to prepare an entry in the competition for the Biblilotheque Saint Sulpice in Montreal (J.R. Lassonde, La Bibliotheque Saint-Sulpice 1910-1931, 1986, 55). Their design, one of eight submitted, was not among the finalists, and the scheme by Eugene Payette was declared the winner. Drouin moved to Quebec City after 1920 and in late 1926 he was invited to form a partnership with Wilfrid Lacroix. Their firm was successful in obtaining major commissions for institutional and ecclesiastical projects, but Lacroix’s activity as a federal politician, and the demands on his professional time, led to the dissolution of their firm in April 1936, and Drouin continued to work under his own name (R.A.I.C. Journal, xiii, May 1936, 103). He later died in Quebec City on 26 February 1951 (death notice Le Soleil [Quebec City], 27 Feb. 1951, 19; inf. Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects)
(works in Quebec City unless noted)
SILLERY, QUE., Roman Catholic school, 1937 (C.R., Vol. L, 27 Oct. 1937, 53)
CHAUVEAU STREET, academy for the R.R. Peres des Ecoles Chretiennes, 1938 (C.R., li, 31 Aug. 1938, 31)
ST. ESPRIT PARISH, Roman Catholic school, 3rd Avenue at 3rd Street, 1940 (C.R., liii, 24 April 1940, 22, t.c.)
CHARLESBOURG, QUE., Roman Catholic Boys School for the Institute des Freres Maristes, located “near the CBC Transmission Station”, 1941 (C.R., liv, 30 july 1941, 27, t.c.)
VALCARTIER, QUE., Women’s Hostel for the Dominion Government Dept. of Munitions and Supply, 1943 (C.R., lvi, 24 Feb. 1943, 119)
ST. JEAN DE PORT JOLI, QUE., major additions and alterations to the Hotel Robichaud to convert the building into a hospital, 1947 (Canadian Hotel Review, xxv, 15 May 1947, 91)