René-Arthur Fréchet

René-Arthur Fréchet (June 6, 1879 However, he was not limited to these architectural fields. Notably, he designed the Capitol Theatre in Moncton in the mid-1920s.

Fréchet became involved in the Acadian community. In 1903, he married Elvina Cormier, daughter of local merchant Simon Cormier. Fréchet was a member of the provisional management team for the French-language Acadian newspaper L'Évangéline, a founding member of the revitalized newspaper (1920s, see Valentin Landry), a city councillor for Moncton City Council for several years, and a member of Société Nationale l'Assomption.

Works In Moncton: Mary's Home, Mountain Road Provincial Bank of Canada, Main Street (1909) Brunswick Hotel, Main Street (now Crowne Plaza, significantly altered) Capitol Theatre, Main Street Academy of the Sacred Heart St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church, Botsford Street Hôtel-Dieu and nurse's residence, Providence Street, now partly obscured Good Shepherd Sisters Building (now the Léopold-Taillon Building, University of Moncton)

Elsewhere in New Brunswick: Saint-Antoine l'Ermite Church, Champdoré St. Joseph's Church, Shediac Léger Pharmacy, Shediac (1912) Church of St. Francis Xavier, Charlo 21 Gray Street, Fredericton (1919) John Peck House, Hillsborough (1919) Creaghan Building, Miramichi (1924) Church of St. John the Baptist and St. Joseph, Tracadie (1925) Bourgeois House, Tracadie (1938) Government of Canada Building, North Head (1939)

In Nova Scotia Memorial Church, Grand-Pré National Historic Site The publicity revitalized his memory.