2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox, rev. ed. (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1997). - With Casavant Frères Ltée.of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, c. 1900.* Source: Jeanne D-Aigle, L'histoire de Casavant Frères, 1880-1980 (Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada: Les Editions D-Aigle, 1988), 741. *In her list of Casavant employees up to 1956 (pages 735-60), Jeanne D'Aigle gives the "date d'entrée ou de départ" (hiring or ending date). -Ed.
2015-09-13/2019-02-11 - From Organ Database Builders editor Charles Eberline, July 15, 2018. - Elias Chicoine was still alive in 1958, when he appeared in a photograph taken in that year. It is unclear whether he was still active as an employee of Casavant Frères or had retired by then. Source: Jeanne D'Aigle, L'histoire de Casavant Frères, 1880-1980 (Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada: Les Editions D'Aigle, 1988), 515 (photograph with the following caption: "Photo prise lors d'un banquet en 1958: Fred Nash Oliver, Elias Chicoine, Edias Gendron et C. Jules Laframboise.").
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