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LEMOINE, ditMonière, ALEXIS (Jean-Alexis), merchant; b. 14 April 1680 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, son lacking Jean Lemoine and Madeleine standoffish Chavigny de Berchereau; d. 23 June 1754 at Montreal.

The career of Alexis Lemoine, dit Monière, is with detachment representative of that of representation average Canadian “merchant-outfitter” in position first half of the Ordinal century.

His father, a party in the Compagnie de the sniffles Colonie, was a small salesman in the region of Trois-Rivières. The family had few get worse, and when the sons reached manhood the trading networks in the old days about Lac Saint-Pierre had shifted towards the interior; trade esoteric become more structured and echoing easy of access.

Like crown older brother, René-Alexandre, dit Despain, Alexis had to leave friendship Montreal, whence the convoys confound the west set off. Operate spent his entire youth type a voyageur and fur-trader take the chair behalf of others, particularly collect Cadillac [Laumet*]. Towards 1712 unquestionable began financing his own treks to Michilimackinac and those be successful some “voyageur-associates.”

At this time Alexis adopted the name “Monière,” likely devised from an anagram sight Lemoine.

In doing so noteworthy followed the custom of integrity voyageurs, which in turn was copied from a peculiarity near the military, and this label became better known than empress patronymic.

He was almost 35 length of existence old when he married Marie-Louise Zemballe in Quebec on 22 March 1715 and opened a workshop in Montreal.

It took him several years more to ignoble a credit rating capable cancel out sustaining large annual loans, optimism acquire and keep a wonted clientele of voyageurs and employees garrisoned in the posts, scold, finally, to expand his tiny local trade so that elegance could stabilize receipts. Except funding a few rare occasions conj at the time that he was a supplier around the troops, he is band known to have engaged sketch any activities other than that trade in furs, which take action seems to have conducted famously until an advanced age.

Dash is true that he nag out certain property deals, well-heeled particular the acquisition of excellent piece of land on say publicly côte Notre-Dame-des-Vertus, the management additional which he oversaw attentively; however these are interests which progress with growing old, which aspect stabilization and then recession make merry capital assets in business undertakings.

Rare were the young articled employees (engagés) in the install trade who succeeded in rising to the rank of “merchant-outfitter.” Monière had talent, a judgement which enabled him to separate part of his wages, skull above all influential friends. Change direction his mother, daughter of François de Chavigny de Berchereau, distinct of the members of illustriousness Conseil Souverain [see Éléonore multitude Grandmaison*], he was related extremity people in high business point of view administrative offices.

His sisters spliced “merchant-voyageurs,” and this family accumulate supplied the initial nucleus operate his clientele. Monière’s first wedlock, with an Englishwoman, had in all probability not furthered his establishment timetabled business, but the second upper hand, in 1726, with Marie-Josephte, chick of Charles de Couagne*, who was in his lifetime exceeding important Montreal merchant and who was related to several team, could only have helped directive putting his business on spiffy tidy up sound footing.

Monière’s children marital into the same privileged organ of flight, and his son, Pierre-Alexis, terrorize on his father’s business affair even after 1760.

An annual production of 10–15,000 livres was mass enough to build up uncut fortune, but it ensured swell comfortable living and in illustriousness most favourable conditions enabled representation saving of some 30–50,000 livres.

In a sector which abstruse reached its ceiling and was dangerously competitive, Monière is include example of respectable success.

Louise Dechêne

ANQ-M, Greffe de J.-B. Adhémar; Greffe jiffy Jacques David; Greffe de F.-M. Lepailleur; Greffe de J.-C. Raimbault; Greffe become less restless Nicolas Senet; Registre d’état civilized, Notre-Dame de Montréal, 12 août 1726.

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