POULIN, Joseph Aime (1889-1952) was born in Lambton, Beauce County, Que. on 8 May 1889 and educated at St. Charles Borromee Seminary in Sherbrooke. He received his architectural training under J.W. Gregoire and Louis N. Audet in Sherbrooke, and later, with the firm for Ouellette & Levesque in Quebec City, and commenced practise under own name in Sherbrooke in 1924. In 1942 he invited his son Albert Poulin (1915- ) to form a partnership, and they continued to practise until the death of J. Aime Poulin in 1952. His son continued the activity of the office until 1969 and later formed the new partnership of Audet, Tremblay & Poulin (1969-75). J.A. Poulin died in Sherbrooke on 8 March 1952 (obit. La Tribune [Sherbrooke], 10 March 1952, 3; biog. R. Hamilton, Prominent Men of Canada, 1931-32, 327; biog. and port Biographies Francaises d’Amerique, 1950; inf. Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects; Ontario Assoc. of Architects). The Archives Nationales du Quebec in Sherbrooke holds a large collection of architectural drawings by the firm of J. Aime Poulin, and by Poulin & Poulin, dating from 1924 through 1970.
J.A. POULIN (works in Quebec & Ontario)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., Academy St. Therese R.C. School, 1926 (C.R., xl, 24 March 1926, 54)
DRUMMONDVILLE, QUE., Roman Catholic school, Dorion Street, 1927 (Montreal Daily Star, 5 May 1927, 29 t.c.; C.R., xli, 18 May 1927, 53, t.c.)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., commercial block for E. Gervais & Freres, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 2 May 1928, 56)
ROCK ISLAND, QUE., Roman Catholic church, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 9 May 1928, 53)
ST. JOSEPH DE GRANTHAM, QUE., Roman Catholic school, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 25 July 1928, 61, t.c.)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., Notre Dame Roman Catholic Church, between Larocque Street and Alexandra Boulevard, 1930 (C.R., xliv, 20 Aug. 1930, 90, t.c.)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., sanatorium for the Anti-Tuberculosis League, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 27 Jan. 1932, 47)
EBOULEMENTS, QUE., rebuilding of l’Assomption Roman Catholic Church, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 29 June 1932, 60)
ST. PIERRE D’ESCOURT, QUE., Roman Catholic church for the Redemptorist Fathers, 1933 (C.R., xlvii, 1 Feb. 1933, 38)
ARTHABASKA, QUE., noviciate for the Freres de Sacre Coeur, 1935 (C.R., xlix, 20 March 1935, 33)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., apartment house for Dorais Panneton, Dufferin Street, 1937 (C.R., vol. 50, 1 Sept. 1937, 32)
AYLMER, QUE., Roman Catholic school for the Redemptorist Fathers, Aylmer Road, 1937-39 (Ottawa Journal, 16 April 1937, 1 & 14, descrip.; 13 Oct. 1939, 20; C.R., li, 2 March 1938, 49)
SHERBROOKE, QUE. Roman Catholic convent for the Sisters of Charity, Parish of Tres Sacrament, 1939 (C.R., lii, 25 Jan. 1939, 35)
OTTAWA, ONT., Roman Catholic monastery and rectory for the Redemptorist Fathers, Beech Street at Champagne Street, 1940; with addition of a Parish Hall by Poulin & Poulin, 1947 (Ottawa Journal, 18 April 1940, 12, descrip.; 9 July 1947, 2, descrip.)
VICTORIAVILLE, QUE., Roman Catholic College for the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, 1941 (C.R., liv, 2 April 1941, 30)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., major addition to St. Charles Borromee Roman Catholic Seminary, 1944 (C.R., lvii, 17 May 1944, 23)
J.A. POULIN & Albert POULIN (works in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships)
VICTORIAVILLE, QUE., Sacre Coeur Roman Catholic College, 1942-44 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Dec. 1947, 51-54, illus.)
WATERVILLE, QUE., St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Orphanage, 1945 (inf. ANQ, Sherbrooke)
L’ANCIENNE LORETTE, QUE., novitiate for the Rev. Freres du Sacre Coeurs, 1946; Provincial House, 1948 (C.R., lix, May 1946, 118; lxi, May 1948, 175)
LAC MEGANTIC, QUE., Notre Dame de Fatima Roman Catholic School, 1946 (C.R., lix, Sept. 1946, 142)
LIMOILOU, QUE., theatre for the Limoilou Amusement Co., 3rd Avenue, 1947 (C.R., lx, May 1947, 130)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., Roman Catholic church, Ontario Street, for the parish of Notre Dame du Perpetuel Soeurs, 1947 (C.R., lx, June 1947, 110)
LAC MEGANTIC, QUE., Roman Catholic school, 1948 (C.R., lxi, Sept. 1948, 130)
MAGOG, QUE., Ste. Marguerite Roman Catholic Church, 1949-50; converted into a Public Library 2010-11 (C.R., lxii, April 1949, 155; France Vanlaethem, Patrimoine en Devenir: l’Architecture Moderne du Quebec, 2012, 194-97, illus.)
MARSBORO, QUE., Roman Catholic church, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, Jan. 1950, 144)
MAGOG, QUE., Roman Catholic school, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, June 1950, 126)
KENOMAGI, QUE., Ste. Cecile Roman Catholic Church, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, June 1950, 126; L. Noppen & L.K. Morisset, Jonquiere-Memoires et lieu, 1994, 60-1, illus.)