ROYER, Andre (1911-1957) was born in Sherbrooke on 28 January 1911 and attended St. Charles Borromee Seminary in Sherbrooke where he graduated in 1929. He studied architecture at the Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts at Laval University in Quebec City from 1929 until 1936 and during his final year he trained under the talented ecclesiastical designer Louis N. Audet, who was at that time the leading architect in Sherbrooke. Royer died there after a long illness on 5 April 1957 (obituary in La Tribune [Sherbrooke], 6 April 1957, 3; biography and portrait in Les Biographies Francaises d'Amerique, 1950, 819)
(works in Sherbrooke)
STE. JEANNE d'ARC ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Galt Street West, 1940 (list of works in obituary in La Tribune, 6 April 1957, 3)
NOTRE DAME-DU-ROSAIRE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Du Rosaire Street, 1945 (C.R., lviii, Sept. 1945, 94)
SHERBROOKE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL (also called the Noe Ponton School), for the Quebec Dept. of Lands & Forests, Ste. Catherine Road, 1945; later demolished after a fire (C.R., lviii, Dec. 1945, 70)
(with Jean P. Audet) ECOLE SUPERIEURE, King Street West, 1948-49 (C.R., lxi, Oct. 1948, 180)