GRAVEL, Armand (1894-1980), active in Chicoutimi, Quebec from 1918 in the following firms:
Lamontagne & Gravel, architects, Chicoutimi, 1918-1923 (with Alfred Lamontagne)
Armand Gravel, associate with Ernest Cormier, Montreal 1925-31
Lamontagne & Gravel, Chicoutimi, 1934-1960 (with Alfred Lamontagne)
Gravel & Gravel, architects, Chicoutimi, 1961- 1980 (with son Maurice Gravel)
Armand Gravel was born in Tadoussac, Co. Saguenay on 15 November 1894 and he studied architecture at the local Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal for three years, but his studies were interrupted by the events of WWI. He moved to Chicoutimi in 1918, and was invited by Alfred Lamontagne to form a new partnership there (see works under Lamontagne). In 1923 he returned to Montreal and joined the office of Ernest Cormier, assisting him with development of plans for buildings on the campus of The University of Montreal. In 1934 Gravel returned to Chicoutimi and resumed the partnership collaboration with Alfred Lamontagne, and remained active with him until 1960. Gravel then invited his son Maurice (b. 1928) to join him in a new partnership of Gravel & Gravel, Architects. Armand Gravel died at Chicoutimi on 14 December 1980 (obituary and port. Le Quotidian [Chicoutimi], 15 Dec. 1980, B 9; inf. from Laurent Thibeault, Regional Archivist, ANQ, Saguenay-Lac St. Jean, Que.). The Archives Nationales du Quebec office in Chicoutimi holds a collection of original architectural drawings by Gravel, and by Lamontagne & Gravel, and by Gravel & Gravel.
CHICOUTIMI, QUE., private residence for an unnamed client, now the Maison d’Accueil de la Ville de Chicoutimi, Racine Street West near Ste. Anne Street, 1929 (Continute [Quebec City], No. 36, Summer 1987, 19, illus.)
JONQUIERE, QUE., Roman Catholic convent, 1949 (C.R., lxii, Aug. 1949, 221)