Salluste Duval (1852-1917) Duval, who earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at the age of 24, was an engineer, organist and Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics at Laval University. He worked with Claver and Samuel Casavant playing a significant role in the application of electricity in pipe organs and the development of a number of important mechanisms including the first successful settable capture combination action system.

Alphonse Gigout, (1846-1909) brother of composer Eugène Gigout and voicer at Casavant Frères from 1903 until his death in 1909. He was a specialist in flue voicing who came to Casavant with thirty years of experience working with Cavaillé-Coll and Debierre in France. During his tenure he trained many voicers who worked in succeeding generations.

Eberhard Walcker, (1883-1959) member of the famous German family of organ builders who joined Casavant Frères as a reed voicer in 1907 and was on the staff for fifty years until his retirement in 1957.

Stephen Stoot
Tonal Director, 1933-1956

Lawrence I. Phelps
Tonal Director, 1958-1971

Gerhard Brunzema
Tonal Director, 1972-1979

Fred N. Oliver
President, 1939-1963

C. Jules Laframboise
General Manager, 1929-1961
Mr. Laframboise began working for Casavant Frères in 1909 and worked for 52 years until his retirement in 1961.

Charles Perrault
President, 1963-1976
Mr. Perrault began working for Casavant Frères in 1954 and became Vice President in 1956.

Bertin Nadeau
President, 1976-1982
Present Owner and Chairman of the Board

Pierre Dionne
President, 1982-2002
Bertin Nadeau (left) and Pierre Dionne at Mr. Dionne’s retirement celebration.

Drawing of the original workshop built by the Casavant brothers in 1880. The building was located behind the family residence and remains part of the workshops of Casavant Frères today.

Historical plaque mounted on the front of the Casavant family residence and present-day office of Casavant Frères. Presented by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada on November 14, 1991 in recognition of the contribution of Joseph Casavant and his sons, Claver and Samuel to the art of organ building.

The November 1879 printed flyer announcing the opening of Casavant Frères plus an English translation of the text.

Grand Prix from the International Exhibition in Antwerp, Belgium, 1930

Photograph of the personnel of Casavant Frères taken in 1895. Claver and Samuel Casavant are the third and fourth individuals in the front row.

The original workshop (left) and first montage room (right). The side of the brick residence of the Casavant family is visible at the left.

The Casavant workshop taken prior to 1908. The tall building on the right, known as La grande boutique, was constructed in 1886/7 in order to erect the four manual, 82 stop organ (Opus 26) for Notre-Dame Church in Montréal.

Photograph taken of Opus 26 in montage in La grande boutique prior to its installation in Notre-Dame Church in Montréal, 1891. The carriage for the horizontal run of the mechanical action from the detached console is shown at the floor level in the middle of the massive frame structure that supports the four manual divisions. The expression shutters of the Récit division may be seen on the top level at the left.

Installation of Opus 550 at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Toronto. The photograph is dated Friday morning, 10 o’clock—February 20, 1914.

Photograph taken in the workshop of the first organ to be installed in Japan in 1927. The instrument was a two manual organ built for Holy Trinity Anglican Church. The tubes of the tubular-pneumatic action are clearly visible in the photograph passing from the back of the console into the organ.

Photograph taken of the four trucks used to transport the organ from the Casavant workshop to the steamer, SS Cochrane in Montréal. The organ left the port of Montréal on October 18 and arrived in Salisbury, Rhodesia, South Africa on December 29, 1927.

The Supreme Court Chambers in Ottawa with furniture that was custom built at Casavant Frères in 1948.

Participants at the post-convention tour of the Casavant workshop following the convention of the American Institute of Organbuilders held in Toronto, Ontario in 1988.

Photograph of the personnel of the South Haven, Michigan Casavant workshop, 1915.