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LEMIRE, JEAN, master-carpenter; b. 1626 in France; in Quebec by 1653, when his marriage to Louise Marsolet is recorded; d. 1685 at Quebec.

In civic records Lemire is named as preparing an estimate for the building of the presbytery in Quebec in November 1664; as preparing a report, along with Paul Chalifour – both are called “carpenters” (charpentiers) – on a house at Coulonge on 5 April 1664; and, on 21 June 1664, as delivering it. The most important notice of him, however, is as a carpenter working on the enlargement programme for the cathedral of Quebec undertaken in 1684. A contract for the work was signed by him 4 Jan. 1684, and he is credited with constructing “out of oak from Batiscan” a clocher on the south tower of the cathedral, under the direction of Claude Baillif. Since he died soon after beginning work on the cathedral, it is to be presumed that Lemire constructed the clocher on the ground for later installation; perhaps it was finished, after his death, by one of his ...Read MORE...


www.biographi.ca Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

1653 Marriage / Partner
Jean LEMIRE and Louise MARSOLET 20 October 1653, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1658 Birth of Child
Jeanne-Elisabeth LEMIRE was born 13 June 1658, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1660 Birth of Child
Marie-Madeleine LEMIRE was born 3 February 1660, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1662 Birth of Child
Joseph LEMIRE was born 6 March 1662, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1664 Birth of Child
Anne LEMIRE was born 13 March 1664, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1666 Quebec
Jean le Mire .............................40 Me. Charpentier
Louise Marsollet ............................26 sa femme
Jeanne le Mire ..............................8 fille
Marie le Mire ................................6 fille
Joseph le Mire ..............................4 fils
Anne le Mire .................................2 fille
Pierre Yvellin ..............................20 domestique Engaigé
Et Jacques gautier ..........................20 engaigé poigneur
The first census of New France (1666)

1666 Birth of Child
Louise LEMIRE was born 10 May 1666, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1668 Birth of Child
Catherine-Eleonore LEMIRE was born 20 March 1668, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1669 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne LEMIRE was born 26 May 1669, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1673 Birth of Child
Charles LEMIRE was born 24 May 1673, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1674 Birth of Child
Marie-Charlotte LEMIRE was born 6 April 1674, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1675 Birth of Child
Jean-François LEMIRE dit GONNEVILLE was born 2 July 1675, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1676 Birth of Child
Jean LEMIRE was born 5 September 1676, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1677 Death of Child
Marie-Charlotte LEMIRE died 21 July 1677, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1678 Birth of Child
Helene LEMIRE was born 28 August 1678, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1681 Death of Child
Helene LEMIRE died 20 March 1681 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1681 Birth of Child
Pierre LEMIRE was born 7 May 1681, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1684 Death
5 October 1684
Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)