"Capturing a Crocodile" School Days, November 1927
| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
He was a member of PASOVAS, the Pioneer Art Students of Vancouver Art School, a group formed of those who had enrolled in the first three sessions (1925 - 1926) at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts. He was living at 157 Eight Avenue West.
He enrolled for his first year apparently in the Fall 1926 session at the art school. He was the business manager for the second issue of The Paint Box, the school's annual. The Prospectus for the 1927-28 school year noted that he had passed in Drawing, Design, Composition (under Varley), and Commercial Art.
Meilleur passed third year Drawing and Painting at the School in 1928, which indicates that he managed to "bump up" a year from his start in Fall 1926. However, there is no record of his acquiring a graduation certificate from the school. He later moved to Powell River where he worked for the local newspaper.
He exhibited his work in the 1936 exhibition of the PASOVAS Art Club, held at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
A handwritten letter on file at the Vancouver Art Gallery Library, sent in preparation for the exhibition, noted that Meilleur had sent wood engravings and woodcuts from Powell River to the exhibition.
BC Vital Statistics on-line did not provide any information on the artist as of June 2021.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1936 Feb 21. - Mar. 5 | PASOVAS Art Club exhibition | titles? |
THE SAVARY PUDDING folio by Frederick A. Amess, private collection.
Original drawings, paintings and text by Amess, C.H. Scott, Grace Melvin,
H. Mortimer Lamb, Plato von Ustinov, and other students and visitors.
June 1935 (various dates), June 1939 (various dates)
52 loose 12"x18" sheets of brown sketch paper