MILETTE, Alexis (1793-1869), active in Quebec as a carpenter, wood sculptor and architect. Born in Sainte-Anne, Yamachiche County, Que. on 15 February 1793 he may have trained under Louis Amable Quevillon, and likely obtained some financial assistance from his father Joseph to establish his own workshop before 1820. There he began to fabricate wood panelling and sculptural elements later installed in more than a dozen Roman Catholic churches in central Quebec. He was adept at preparing plans for alterations, additions, and, in two confirmed cases, for the entire church building where he later designed and executed the interiors. He was, by all accounts, 'the most fashionable sculptor of the day in the whole Trois-Rivieres regional' and his plans show a direct influence of the work of Thomas Baillairge, and later by the designs of Victor Bourgeau. Milette died in Yamachiche, Que. on 11 October 1869 (biog. Gerard Morisset, l'Architecture en Nouvelle-France, 1949, 135; Dictionary of Canadian Biography, ix, 1976, 551-2)
YAMACHICHE, QUE., remodelling and new facade for the Roman Catholic church, 1830; demol. 1873 (L. Voyer, Eglises Disparues, 1981, 166, illus.)
LOUISEVILLE, QUE., Roman Catholic church, 1846; demol. 1917 (L. Voyer, Eglises Disparues, 1981, 85-6, illus.)