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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. Jean Lemire was baptized in the Saint Vivien church June 4, 1625.
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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 Canada2007 Canadian Environment Award, citation of lifetime achievement2008 Officer of the Order of Canada, Doctor Honoris causa (University of Rimouski), Great Ambassador (Sherbrooke University)2007 "Mission Antarctique," Éditions La Presse2009 "Le Dernier Continent," Éditions La PresseA 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 production studio that took him across the world’s oceans to raise awareness about ...
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 ...
LEMIRE, JEAN, master-carpenter; baptized in the parish of Saint-Vivien, at Rouen, France, 4 June 1625, son of Mathurin Le Mire and Jeanne Vanier; in Quebec by 1653, when his marriage to Louise Marsolet is recorded there, on 20 October; d. 5 Oct. 1684 at Quebec and was buried there the following day.
Jun 5, 2011 · An Evening with Jean Lemire, Canada’s Most Famous Modern Explorer Thursday, May 12 7 p.m. (French with simultaneous translation into English) Theatre Environmental biologist and award-winning filmmaker and Jean Lemire will describe some of his expeditions, including the 430-day sojourn in the Antarctic.
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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 ...
