Born in Saint-Anicet, Quebec, he attended Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal to study landscape architecture, and began his career in Montreal as a designer of gardens, cemeteries, and public thoroughfares.

[1] His interest turned to building architecture, and he enrolled at the École polytechnique de Montréal in 1908, studying under Max Doumic, graduating in 1911.

[1] He continued to experiment with the form and materials over the next decade, culminating in the Cathedral of St. Teresa of Avila in Amos, completed in 1924.

The cathedral was the first Catholic church in Quebec built entirely of reinforced concrete, and features a dome spanning nearly one hundred feet.

Other works include a number of residences in Outremont (1912–1950), the gymnasium at the Académie Querbes (1925), and the Church of the Nativity in Swanton, Vermont (1925).