VENNE, Ludger (1891-1973) was active in Montreal, Que. and was born there on 12 January 1891. While information regarding his education and training has not been found it is know that his career as architect began shortly after World War I when he completed an ambitious design for St. Zephirin Roman Catholic Church, La Tuque, Que. (1922-23). He was active in the Town Planning Commission in Montreal in 1931, and was elected as President of the Province of Quebec Association of Architects in 1936. He does not appear to have been related to Joseph Venne nor to L. Alphonse Venne who also practised in Montreal during this time. Venne died at St. Lin, Que. on 24 April 1973 (death notice in La Presse [Montreal], 26 April 1973, F15). A copy of his portrait is held by P.Q.A.A. in Montreal. Another photographic portrait of Venne was published in the Daily Commercial News [Toronto], 27 Jan. 1936, p. 1.
(works in Montreal unless noted)
LA TUQUE, QUE., St. Zephirin Roman Catholic Church, St. Joseph Street at St. Antoine Street, 1922; and Presbytery 1927; all still standing in 2023 (C.R., xxxvi, 26 April 1922, 50, t.c.; xli, 17 Aug. 1927, 52)
ST. DENIS STREET, residence for E.J. Laurendeau, 1922 (C.R., xxxvi, 24 May 1922, 55)
PLANTAGENET, ONT., St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Water Street at Church Street, 1923; still standing in 2023 (C.R., xxxvii, 14 Feb. 1923, 51)
TOWN OF MOUNT ROYAL, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School, Regent Avenue, 1925-26 (Gazette [Montreal], 10 Dec. 1925, 4; inf. Scott Edwards)
OUTREMONT, residence for R.E. Marquette, Wilder Avenue, 1927 (City of Outremont b.p. 2164, 9 March 1927)
JACKMAN, MAINE, U.S.A., Roman Catholic Church, Main Street, c. 1927; demol. 2011 (R.A.I.C. Journal, iv, June 1927, 226, illus.)
FULLUM STREET, at Rouen Street, residence for the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, 1927 (Daily Commercial News, [Toronto], 25 May 1927, 3)
(with Irenee Vautrin) NOTRE DAME DU PERPETUEL SECOURS ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Monk Boulevard at de Biencourt Street, 1927 (Montreal Daily Star, 16 Sept. 1927, 31, t.c.; Gazette [Montreal], 28 Sept. 1927, 5; Daily Commercial News [Toronto], 30 Sept. 1927, 4; inf. Scott Edwards)
ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Beaubien Street, 1929-30 (Montreal Daily Star, 22 Nov. 1929, 3)
GRANBY, QUE., College for the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, 1931 (C.R., xliv, 10 Sept. 1930, 60, t.c.)
VILLE MARIE, QUE., Court House and Jail, 1931 (C.R., xlv, 8 July 1931, 58)
DANIEL O'CONNELL ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Prud'homme Avenue, 1932 (C.R., xlvi, 20 Jan 1932, 45)
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, St. Denis Street, addition and alterations, 1939-40 (Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 184-87, illus.)
CASGRAIN & CHARBONNEAU LTD., office building, St. Lawrence Boulevard, 1941 (C.R., liv, 3 Sept. 1941, 36, t.c.; Architecture Batiment Construction, iii, Jan 1948, 27, illus.)
LONGUEUIL, residence for Louis P. de Grandpre, c. 1943 (C.H.G., xx, July-Aug. 1943, 30, illus.)
UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL, Edouard Montpetit Boulevard, addition of three new wings, designed 1946; built 1949-56 (C.R., lix, May 1946, 124; C. Cameron et al, Le Campus: Le Patrimoine Architectural et Paysager de l'Universite de Montreal, 2010, 113-15, illus. & descrip.)
ST. HENRI, QUE., Ecole des Arts et Metiers, 1948 (Architecture Bâtiment Construction, ii, Dec. 1947, 31-33, illus.)
L'ABORD-A-PLOUFFE, QUE., Roman Catholic School, 1948 (C.R., lxi, Aug. 1948, 235)
RIVIERE DES PRAIRIES, QUE., St. Joseph Roman Catholic School, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, June 1950, 126)