Champagne, Maurice | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

CHAMPAGNE, Maurice (1896-1962) was born in Montreal on 25 June 1896 and attended the University of Ottawa in 1910-14. He articled with the Ottawa firm of Horwood & Horwood in 1914-19, then moved to Montreal and studied architecture at McGill University in 1920-22 before returning to Ottawa. He opened an office there in 1923 and practiced under his own name until 1929 when he turned over much of his professional business to Lucien Leblanc and moved to Lachute Mills, Que. to work as a staff architect for Ayers Ltd. and the Dominion Shuttle Co. Ltd. He resumed his private practice in 1935 and was active until his retirement in December 1959. Champagne died at Hull, Que. on 12 January 1962 (obit. Le Droit [Ottawa], 13 Jan. 1962, 13; inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects)

OTTAWA, ONT., major addition to the Rideau Street Roman Catholic Convent for the Grey Nuns, fronting on Besserer Street, 1927 (Ottawa Journal, 14 June 1927, 1 & 5, descrip.; 2 March 1928, 11, illus. & descrip., but lacking attribution; C.R., xli, 22 June 1927, 54)
OTTAWA, ONT., major addition to St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic School, Empress Avenue, 1928 (Const., xxi, April 1928, 145)
OTTAWA, ONT., Garneau Roman Catholic School, Cumberland Avenue, 1928 (Ottawa Journal, 15 March 1928, 2; Const., xxi, April 1928, 145)
HULL, QUE., major addition to Roman Catholic Orphanage, Aylmer Road, 1929 (Canadian Hotel Review, vii, June 1929, 37)
LACHUTE, QUE., St. Julien Roman Catholic Church, 1936 (Le Droit [Ottawa], 13 Jan. 1962, 13, list of works in obituary)
LACHUTE MILLS, QUE., mill for the Dominion Shuttle Co., 1937 (C.R., l, 21 April 1937, 36)
ARUNDEL, QUE., Roman Catholic school, 1949 (C.R., lxii, July 1949, 133; Architecture Batiment Construction, v, Jan. 1950, 28, illus.)
LACHUTE, QUE., Roman Catholic school, 1950 (C.R., lxiii, Feb. 1950, 128; Architecture Batiment Construction, vii, April 1952, 18-23, illus. & descrip.)
(with Crevier & Belanger) BUCKINGHAM, QUE., major addition to St. Michel Roman Catholic Hospital, 1950-51 (C.R., lxiii, Nov. 1950, 118; Architecture Batiment Construction, viii, March 1953, 35-9, illus. & descrip.)