DENONCOURT, Ernest Lefebvre (1888-1972) was born in Trois Rivieres, Que. on 18 January 1888 and was educated there and in Montreal where he graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1913. He was junior assistant in the office of Charles Lafond (in 1913-16) and practiced under his own name in Trois Rivieres in 1916-18. In late 1918 he formed a partnership with Ulric J. Asselin (see list of works under Asselin & Denoncourt). Their practice flourished, largely from the patronage of the Roman Catholic School Board who commissioned their firm to design more than a dozen schools in and around Trois Rivieres. Their collaboration ended in 1934 and Denoncourt, by now a talented designer of modernist works, continued to work under his own name until 1948 when his son Maurice joined him in the new firm of Denoncourt & Denoncourt. They practised together until 1960. Ernest D. died in Trois Rivieres on 3 August 1972 (obit. Le Nouvelliste [Trois Rivieres], 4 August 1972, 2; biog. and port. Biographies Francaises d'Amerique, 1950, 810; inf. Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects)
E. L. DENONCOURT (works in Trois Rivieres)
(with L.N. Audet) ST. JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC SEMINARY, 1927 (C.R., xli, 9 March 1927, 60)
ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Bureau Street at Royale Street, 1934 (C.R., xlviii, 14 Feb. 1934, 24)
ROMAN CATHOLIC NORMAL SCHOOL & NOVITIATE, for the Ursuline Sisters, 1938 (C.R., li, 20 July 1938, 33; R.A.I.C. Journal, xviii, April 1941, 66, illus.)
NAVY LEAGUE OF CANADA, Lafosse Square, 1942 (C.R., lv, 13 May 1942, 28)
COOKE SANATORIUM, major addition, 1943 (C.R., lvi, 29 Sept. 1943, 28)
ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, 1945 (C.R., lviii, Sept. 1945, 94)
LE PETITE FORGE (near Trois Rivieres), for the Lebrun Brothers, 1947 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, June 1947, 24)
LES GRANDS MAGASINS FORTIN, conversion of three buildings into a department store, 1947 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, June 1947, 28, illus.)
STE. MARGUERITE-DE-CORTONE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Brebeuf Street, 1949 (C.R., lxii, June 1949, 114)
HOBB'S GLASS CO., office and factory, 1949-50 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxvii, April 1950, 71, illus. in advert.)
ZELLER'S LTD., major addition to retail store, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, May 1950, 148)
E.L. DENONCOURT (works elsewhere in Quebec & New Brunswick)
SHAWINIGAN FALLS, QUE., St. Sacrement Roman Catholic School, Royal Street, 1939 (C.R., lii, 4 Oct. 1939, 36-7)
NOTRE DAME DU LAC, QUE., Roman Catholic Hospital for the Sisters of Jesus, 1941 (C.R., liv, 7 May 1941, 31)
ST. JACQUES, QUE., School of Household Science, 1947 (C.R., lx, April 1947, 94; Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Dec. 1947, 46-7, illus.)
GRAND MERE, QUE., Roman Catholic Hospital for the Sisters of Jesus, 1947 (C.R., lx, May 1947, 120)
GRAND MERE, QUE., mill for Grand Mere Knitting Co., 1947 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, June 1947, 30, illus.)
GRAND MERE, QUE., Lafleche Hospital, 1947 (Architecture Batiment Construction, II, Sept. 1947, 58-63, illus.)
EDMUNSTON, N.B., sports arena, 1947 (C.R., lx, Oct. 1947, 188)
ST. CASIMIR, QUE., Knights of Columbus Building, 1947-48 (France Vanlaethem, Patrimoine en Devenir: l'Architecture Moderne du Quebec, 2012, 5, illus.)
LA TUQUE, QUE., Roman Catholic school, 1948 (C.R., lxi, June 1948, 163)
GRAND MERE, QUE., presbytery for St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, April 1950, 122)
GRAND MERE, QUE., new factory for Grand Mere Hand Craft Co., 8th Avenue, 1950 (Financial Post [Toronto], 19 Aug. 1950, 14)