LESAGE, Simeon (1849-1907), active in Montreal, Que. in partnership with Joseph Perrault from 1892 to 1903 (see list of works under Perrault & Lesage). Born in Montreal in 1849, he was trained as an engineer and architect, and served an apprenticeship with Henri Maurice Perrault & Joseph Rielle, Land Surveyors, Civil Engineers & Architects from February 1863 to February 1868, then joined the office of Alexander C. Hutchison, a leading Montreal architect, as a draftsman in 1869 and gained much of his knowledge of architecture under him.
Lesage was listed as an architect with an office on St. Urbain Street in Montreal in 1873 (City of Montreal Directory, 1873-74, 411), and by 1887 he was still practising as a Civil & Sanitary Engineer, Architect and Patent Solicitor. He joined the Province of Quebec Assoc. of Architects on 30 December 1890, and was one of its' founding members. In 1892 he was invited by Joseph Perrault to form a new partnership which remained active until 1903. No references to projects by Lesage after 1903 have been located, and he later retired from the profession in 1906. Lesage died in Montreal on 25 March 1907 (obituary with port. Montreal Daily Star, 26 March 1907, 6; obituary La Presse [Montreal], 26 March 1907, 14; obituary Canadian Society of Civil Engineers – Report of Annual Meeting, xxii, 1908, 13). A photographic portrait of Lesage can be found in J.A. Cooper, Men of Canada, 1901-02, 154. The National Archives of Canada in Ottawa hold a copy of a detailed 3 page biography submitted by Lesage for membership in the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (NAC, MG 28, I 277, Vol. 9).