Tison, Jean Baptiste | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

TISON, Jean Baptiste (1814-1887) was active in Montreal in the mid-nineteenth century as a measurer (in 1848-54), as Inspector of Roads (in 1855-63) and then as an architect. In 1863-64 he was in partnership with John Esinhart. Several of his signed drawings for designs of unadorned stone houses survive in the Montreal office of the Archives Nationales du Quebec, including a proposal for a row of three houses for Joseph Belle, Notary, c. 1850 (ANQM, CD2/1175) and a pair of houses for Elizabeth Hall, 1853 (ANQM, CD2/194). With Esinhart he prepared plans for a linear Armoury & Drill Shed stretching nearly three hundred feet along the Champs de Mars from St. Gabriel Street to Gosford Street, MONTREAL, QUE., c. 1863 (ANQM, CD2/1591), but it is uncertain if this scheme was ever built. Tison died in Montreal on 27 February 1887 and was buried at Cote des Neiges Cemetery (death notice Montreal Star, 1 March 1887, 6)