Fernand Préfontaine was a Canadian architect, photographer, and art critic. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he completed his degree in architecture at the Polytechnique Montréal at the Université de Montréa

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the eighth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it now takes its name