The Artisan Award is given to an individual or a corporation that has built a reputation in the area of architectural or decorative elements restoration.

Maçonnerie L.M.R. is the recipient of the 2009 Artisan Award. This company, which was founded in 1990 by Alain Boivin, Jean-Luc Gaillard and Jean-Yves Chesnier, specializes in stone cutting and the restoration of masonry works.

Jean-Yves Chesnier and Jean-Luc Gaillard have been working in masonry for more than 30 years. The company, which uses ultramodern equipment and techniques with the greatest of care for traditions, employs on average ten to fifteen people. The core of its activities is the restoration of heritage buildings.

While striving to preserve the composition and the original materials of the elements to be restored, Maçonnerie L.M.R. works in close collaboration with architects and engineers. It can therefore constantly improve the techniques and products it uses with an objective of achieving the greatest durability possible for the buildings on which it intervenes. The uninterrupted presence of its team on a work site enables this company to control the quality of its work and service.

Among the company’s many achievements are the masonry restorations of the Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Chapel, the spectacular outer walls of the Carmelite Monastery, the John Young monument in Old Montréal, the Sir John A. Macdonald monument in Place du Canada, as well as the splendid Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.