MORISSETTE, Jean Albert (1889-1955), active in the province of Quebec, at first in Montreal, and later in Quebec City. He was an architect and partner in the following firms
Doucet & Morissette, Architects, Montreal, 1912-14
J.A. Morissette, Architect, Quebec City 1914-23
Beaule & Morissette, Architects, Quebec City 1923 to 1955
Morissette was born on 5 January 1889 and he studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal from 1908 to 1912. One of his classmates at the Ecole was Emmanuel A. Doucet, with whom he was to form an architectural partnership in Montreal in late 1912 (see list of works under Doucet & Morissette). Their collaboration ended with the outbreak of WWI in 1914, and Morissette moved to Quebec City and opened his own office in 1914. In 1923 he was invited by Oscar Beaule to form a new partnership in Quebec City, and they operated a successful practise together for the next thirty years (see list of works under Beaule & Morissette). Their practise ended in 1955 with the death of Morissette in Quebec City on 11 September 1955 (obituary Le Soleil [Quebec City], 12 Sept. 1955, 15; inf. Province of Quebec Association of Architects)
(works in Quebec City)
DELIGNY STREET, at d’Aiguillon Street, residence for Hubert l’Heureax, 1914 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 325, 16 March 1914)
DES FOSSES STREET, store and warehouse for Mr. Roy, 1920 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 5144, 19 Feb. 1920)
L. R. STEEL CO. INC., Notre Dame des Anges Street at de la Couronne Street, a three storey commercial block for Camillien J. Lockwell, 1920; with addition of a retail store, 1928 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 5277, 28 April 1920; b.p. 5292, 1 May 1920)
LAGACE & LEPINAY CO., Notre Dame des Anges Street at St. Anselme Street, warehouse, 1920 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 5412, 31 May 1920)
STE. FOY ROAD, residence for J.R. Guay, 1921 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 5951, 2 May 1921)
ST. LOUIS ROAD, residence for William Doyle, 1921 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 6236, 25 July 1921)
LOCKWELL STREET, two tenement houses for C.A. Vezina, 1921 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 6321, 22 Aug. 1921)
PARENT AVENUE, residence for Adjutor Maranda, 1922 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 7189, 30 June 1922)
HOLLAND AVENUE, at St. Cyrille Street, residence for Mrs. Napolean Mercier, 1922 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 7294, 25 July 1922)
D’AUGUILLON STREET, brick stables for Thomas Hetherington, 1922 (City of Quebec b.p. No. 7387, 17 Aug. 1922)