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LORD Madame Napoleon (Elisabeth Mireault)
- Born
- Sainte-Marie de Salome, QC, 1866
- Died
- Sainte-Marie de Salome, QC, 1943
- Biography synopsis
- Elizabeth Mireault was recognized by many, including Isabelle Abbotte, secretary of the Canadian Handicraft Guild (CHG), as one of the most talented ceinture fleche artists in her time, working at a phenomenal rate, weaving almost half a sash in a single day. In the late 1920s, scholars such as Marius Barbeau and Edouard-Zotique Massicotte took great interest in the preservation of traditional crafts. They invited Mireault to demonstrate finger weaving skills in the 1927 and 1928 "Festivals des chansons et des arts populaires" held at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. She also conducted demonstrations for the CHG and was invited to give fleche workshops at the Ecole des arts domestiques du Quebec. In the 1930s, prompted by Barbeau, Mireault transmitted the fleche technique to the Ursulines sisters in Quebec City and the Soeurs de la Providence in Montreal. One of her apprentices, Soeur Marie-Jeanne, became a widely recognized finger weaver. Her craft was continued by her daughter Alice Lord, as well as by her granddaughter Marthe Melancon, who ran the well-known folkloric dance troupe "Les Sortileges," Melancon contributed to propagating her grandmother's memory by organizing fleche workshops and preserving photographs and samples that had belonged to Mireault.
- Media used
- Finger Weaving: Ceinture flechee
- File & Archive locations
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Archives Lanaudière
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Sainte-Marie-Salomé 1888-1988 Québec, QC: Éditions Louis Bilodeau & Fils Ltée, 1987
- "L'Association des artisans de ceinture fléchée de Lanaudière." L'Artisan 16 Feb. 1988: 39
- "Madame Napoléon Lord de Sainte-Marie-Salomé." La Revue populaire (Montreal) 29.7 (juillet 1936): 26
- Barbeau, Marius. Assomption Sash. Ottawa, ON: National Museum of Canada, 1937
- Barbeau, Marius. Ceinture fléchée. Montreal: Les Éditions l'Étincelle, 1973
- Barbeau, Marius. "Ceinture fléchée." Cahiers de l'Académie Canadienne-Française 9 (1962): 71-76
- Barbeau, Marius. "Nos arts populaires." Revue du Québec industriel 4.3 (1939): 3-7
- Barbeau, Marius. "Nos Ceintures fleches." La Revue populaire 33.11 (Nov 1940): 52 & 70
- Barbeau, Marius. "Sashes for the Fur Trade." The Beaver June 1941: 24-27
- Bevilacqua, Pierre. "La ceinture fléchée et le caribou..." Cap-aux-Diamants: la revue d'histoire du Québec 37 (1994): 81
- Fortier, Stéphane. "Les Acadiens nous ont laissé un bel héritage." Journal de Joliette 13 Mar. 2013: 25
- Galaise, Suzanne. "La ceinture flechee." Les Franco-Americains et leur heritage quebecois. Quebec, QC: Conseil de la vie francaise en Amerique, 1986
- Hamelin, Veronique. Le fleche authentique du Quebec par la methode renouvelee. Ottawa, ON: Lemeac, 1983
- Julien, Marie-Lise. "Metiers d'art: a remarquer et a valoriser." L'Artefact 5.5 (mars-avril 1997): 16-22
- L'Association des artisans de ceinture flechee de Lanaudiere. Histoire et origines de la ceinture flechee traditionelle dite de L'Assomption. Sillery, QC: Les Editions du Septentrion, 1994
- L'Association des artisans de ceinture flechee de Lanaudiere. "Elisabeth Mireault artisane de ceinture flechee." Journal L'Action 25 Feb. 1988: B2
- L'Association des artisans de ceinture flechee de Lanaudiere. "L'Association des artisans de ceinture flechee hote d'un colloque provincial." Journal L'Action 8 Feb. 1988: A16
- Lavallee, Pierrette. "Le fleche." Femmes d'ici (Montreal) 16.2 (Oct. 1981): 12-13
http://bv.cdeacf.ca/CF_PDF/1989_09_pd234_1981v16n02.pdf - Leduc, Maurice. "Fleches de toutes laines." Le Maclean (Montreal) (Dec. 1973): 30-32 & 38-40
- Massicotte, Édouard-Zotique. "La ceinture fléchée, chef-d'oeuvre de l'industrie domestique au Canada." Mémoires de la Société Royale du Canada 18.3 (mai 1924): 1-13
- MRC de la Matawinie. Plan de mise en valeur du tourisme culturel, Identification et caracterisation des composantes patrimoniales regionales, rapport synthese Quebec: Bergeron Gagnon Inc, 2013
http://www.cldmatawinie.org/upload/File/Rapport_final_patrimoine_Matawinie_partie_1%281%29.pdf - Reneaud, Joanne. Le Genie de la ceinture flechee Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare, QC: Fondation Pierre Belanger, 1997
