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    Jean Lemire. Jean Lemire (1625—1685) was a master carpenter and a syndic of Quebec City, and is the ancestor of most Lemires living in Canada. His father and mother, Mathurin LeMire and Jeanne Vannier, lived in the Saint Vivien district of Rouen, Normandy. Rouen is a port on the Seine river.

  2. Jean Lemire est un cinéaste québécois avec un fort intérêt pour la biologie et l'océanographie. Il fut chef des expéditions Mission Arctique ( 2002 ), Mission Baleines ( 2003 ), Mission Antarctique ( 2005 - 2006 ) et la mission 1000 jours pour la planète (2012-2016), toutes réalisées à bord du voilier Sedna IV .

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    1985 BSc in biology, University of Sherbrooke 1987 Founded Les Productions Ciné-bio (a scientific consulting and script-development firm for documentary film productions)
    1994 Film "Marine Mammals Mission"
    1996 Film "Encounters with the Whales of the St. Lawrence"
    1998 Film "The Last Frontier"
    2004 Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Canada
    2007 Canadian Environment Award, citation of lifetime achievement
    2008 Officer of the Order of Canada, Doctor Honoris causa (University of Rimouski), Great Ambassador (Sherbrooke University)
    2007 "Mission Antarctique," Éditions La Presse
    2009 "Le Dernier Continent," Éditions La Presse
  3. Envoy for Climate Change, Northern and Arctic Affairs, Government of Québec. A biologist by training and renowned science communicator, Jean Lemire has conducted work on climate change and biodiversity that has led to major scientific missions. In 2001, he converted a large oceanographic schooner into a scientific research platform and ...

  4. La grande traversée (English: The Great Adventure; also: Voyage of the Sedna (US); [8] The Great Crossing) [4] is a 2003 Canada-France short documentary film written and directed by Jean Lemire and Thierry Piantanida, [2] [3] as well as co-produced and co-narrated by Jean Lemire, [1] made to foster awareness of global warming as seriously jeopardizing a fragile Arctic ecosystem, the first ...

  5. Biography. Lemire was born in Colmar, Haut-Rhin. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste (1844–1909), a mason, and Anne-Marie Sarter (1848–1924), a dressmaker. In 1871, France was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War, and his family was forced to flee their home and take refuge in Montbéliard, on the other side of the new border.

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  7. The Bieler School of Environment is proud to host Jean Lemire for our 2022 Environment Public Lecture An Odyssey of Change Filmmaker and author, Jean Lemire accumulates prizes and distinctions. Appointed emissary to climate change and to northern and arctic issues by the Government of Quebec in 2017, he is now traveling the world to make leaders aware of the pressing issues that we all face. A ...

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