Michel Siseraye Lefèbvre dit LaSiseraye, Metis

Is known in the historical record variously as Michel Lefebvre dit Lacisseraye, La Cisseraye, Lassisseraye, Lacizerais, La Cerisaye, and La Cerisaie.

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Notes for MICHEL LEFEBVRE DIT LA CISSERAYE: Presumably this typical artisan-builder followed the normal practice of his kind and day, travelling about the colony to work on various buildings as opportunity afforded; occasionally too he surveyed land in the vicinity of Trois-Rivières. His only recorded activity as an artisan, however, is on the second parish church of Trois-Rivières in 1682-83, and on the first parish church of Lachine in 1702-03. A contract for the Trois-Rivières church exists, made between the Recollets under whose aegis it was built, and René Pelletier, carpenter; and there is also a notation in the greffe of Sevein Ameau giving Lefebvre the task of sheathing the building with boards and shingles for which the parish council gave him 350 livres plus the materials. Lefebvre being also a master-mason, it is reasonable to assume that he was responsible for the exterior appearance of the Trois-Rivières church. It has vanished without trace, but presumably it was similar to the one Lefebvre built at Lachine, whose appearance (aside from the bell-tower, rebuilt in 1718) is known from a drawing made before its demotion in 1869 (reproduced as Plat XXIX in Alan Gowans' Church Architecture in New France).

It would be an error, however, to imagine that Lefebvre was its architect in any modern sense. Lefebvre represented the traditional "form-transmitting" folk builder, as contrasted with the modern idea of a "form-giving" architect. He incorporated in his architecture proportions and structures inherited through apprenticeship from a collective folk tradition (presumably that of Normandy, since his father came from Rouen) rather than any expression of personal taste or aesthetic ideas. (Frances Halpenny)

He was one of the most important carpenters of his era in the Trois-Rivières region. In 1683 he is called upon by the churchwardens to repair the church of Trois-Rivières. In 1686, the Jesuits, Lords of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, give him the task of building an embankment with beams to receive water and keep the ground away from the communal windmill. In 1691, the governor of Ramesay hires Michel to erect a fence around the village and in 1699, to dig a well for the Ursulines' homestead. In 1700 he is granted a parcel of land from Lord Jacques Dubois in the domain of Sainte-Marguerite. From 1703 to 1708, he is employed as a surveyor in the region of Montreal until his death.

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