Canada
Dom Bellot
arrives in 1934 for the first time. He is invited by the Canadian architect
Dufresne to give a series of nine lectures about his ideas about architecture.
This lectures are a success and are published posthumously in 1949 ( Propos
d'un bâtisseur du Bon Dieu). In 1937 construction started for the
completion of St. Joseph Oratory in Montreal. He travels frequently from Canada
to Europe where the work continues at the atelier in Wisques and the church in
Porto. His return on September 3, 1939 is blocked by the outbreak of the second
world war. Dom Bellot stays in Canada, where he tries to set up an atelier like
Wisques. He builds the first stage of the abbey St. Benoît-du-Lac. Some young
Canadian architects like Dufresne and Dom Côté O.S.B. are influenced by his
ideas and that's the start of "Belotism", the architecture movement which
dominated religious buildings in Quebec until 1960. In 1941 his permit to work
as an architect in Canada is not renewed. Dom Bellot died of cancer on July 5,
1944. He is buried on the cemetery of his final project: the abbey of St.
Benoît-du-Lac.
In Canada
Bellot has constructed:
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Montreal,
Canada (1937-1941) |
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Lac
Memphrémagog, Canada (1939-1941) |