PAYETTE, Maurice (1900-1971), son of Eugene Payette, was born in Montreal and educated there at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1923 to 1925. He was employed as a student in the offices of MacVicar & Heriot, Barott & Blackader, J. Melville Miller, and, after graduation, he worked for Ludger Lemieux. He left Montreal in early 1927 to attend courses at the City College of New York and while there he worked in the office of Thomas Lamb and for the firm of Schwartz & Gross, specialists in apartment house design. He returned to Montreal in 1929 and took a keen interest in the administrative affairs of the Province of Quebec Association of Architects, which led to his election as a Member of Council in 1932, and as its Secretary from 1934 until 1951. Payette served as the PQAA President in 1952 and was later nominated as a Fellow of the PQAA and of the Royal Inst. of British Architects in London. He served as President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada from 1958 to 1960. Few references to his actual work as a designer have been found. He was in partnership with Jean Crevier for a brief period and shared office space with his father on St. Francois Xavier Street in the late 1930's and early 1940's, although it is difficult to determine the extent of involvement of his father in the day-to-day affairs of his son's office. He died in Montreal on 26 October 1971 (obituary in La Presse [Montreal], 27 Oct. 1971, D28; Gazette [Montreal], 27 Oct. 1971, 52; biography and port. in the R.A.I.C. Journal, xxii, Aug. 1945, 168; xxxv, Sept. 1958, 358; biography in Who's Who In Canada, ii, 1936-37, 858)
PAYETTE & CREVIER
DE LANAUDIERE STREET, near Beaubien Street, a block of nine flats, 1939 (Montreal Daily Star, 15 Feb. 1939, 29)
CAISSE NATIONALE d'ECONOMIE, St. James Street West, 1939 (Gazette [Montreal], 8 April 1939, 19, illus; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxii, Oct. 1945, 211-13, illus.)
TOWN OF MOUNT ROYAL, apartment house, Laird Boulevard at Canora Road, 1939 (C.R., lii, 18 Jan. 1939, 37)
OUTREMONT, residence for George Courey, Pratt Avenue, 1940 (C.R., liii, 28 Aug. 1940, 24)
M. PAYETTE
EGLISE DU TRES-SAINT-REDEMPTEUR, Adam Street, repairs to the church and restoration of the stained glass windows, 1944 (Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 464)
(with Gascon & Parant) GARDEN CITY, for the Tercentenary of Montreal, c. 1944 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxi, Sept. 1944, 196-99, illus.)
COUVENT DES SOEURS GRISES, Dorchester Boulevard West at Guy Street, addition of kitchen building, 1946 (Montreal, Les Couvents, 1984, 100)
OUTREMONT, residence for Marcel Benoit, Cote Ste. Catherine Road, 1947 (Outremont b.p. 4237, 22 July 1947)