General Notes

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From: Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada
In civil records Lemire is named as preparing an estimate for the building of
the presbytery in Quebec in Nov. 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 program
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 many sons.
From the Dictionaire Biographique du Canada:
In civil 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" (Charpentier)- on a house at coulonge on April 5 1664; and on June 21, 1664  ad delivering it.  The most important notice of him, however, is as a carpenter working on the enlargement program for the cathedral of Quebec, undertaken in 1684. A contract for the work was signed by him on June 4, 1884, 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 Ballif. Since he died soon after beginning the cathedral, it is presumed that Lemire constructed the "clocher" on the ground for later installation.