Fernand Préfontaine

{{Short description|Canadian architect (1888–1949)}}

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Fernand Préfontaine (January 18, 1888 — January 10, 1949) was a Canadian architect, photographer, and art critic.{{cite book|title=À la façon du temps présent : trois siècles d'architecture populaire au Québec|author=Paul-Louis Martin|publisher=Les Presses de L'Universite Laval|year=1999|isbn=9782763776651|page=378}} Born in Montreal, Quebec, he completed his degree in architecture at the Polytechnique Montréal at the Université de Montréal in 1911.{{cite journal|author=Marie-Thérèse Lefebvrel|title=La bibliothèque du Nigog : analyse du cadre référentiel des auteurs de la revue|journal=Les Cahiers des dix|number=69|year=2015|pages=177–214|doi=10.7202/1035600ar|doi-access=free}} In 1918, he co-founded the progressive arts magazine Le Nigog with pianist and composer Léo-Pol Morin and writer Robert de Roquebrune.{{cite book|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/le-nigog|title=Le Nigog|author=Bernadette Guilmette, Armand Guilmette|work=The Canadian Encyclopedia|date= December 3, 2012}} He pursued further studies in Paris, arriving there in 1919, at the École des Beaux-Arts and the École du Louvre; earning degrees in art history and archaeology.

He worked as an architect in Montreal and died there on January 10, 1949, aged 60.{{cite book|url=http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/1764|title=Prefontaine, Fernand|work=Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada: 1800-1950|author=Robert George Hill|year=2009}}