Education
Lemieux is originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was educated at Carleton University in Ottawa (Bachelor in history), Concordia University in Montreal (Bachelor of Fine Arts in film studies) and the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom (Master of Arts in film archiving).
Career
He is a Grammy, Juno, and Gemini Award voting member. He is the audiovisual archivist and legacy manager for the
He has been working as the "s audiovisual archivist and Civil Defense/Digital Video Disc producer since September 1999. He was put in charge of the "s vault after the August 1999 passing of original tape archivist Dick Latvala.
The Dave"s Picks series is named after Lemieux.
He has also produced several Civil Defense releases by Jerry Garcia. Lemieux hosts a daily radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio (Channel 32) and XM Satellite Radio (Channel 23), Today in History, in which he selects a segment of music from that day in the "s history and explains its historical context and other information relating to the selection.
Lemieux is also the editor of the Association of Moving Image Archivists" quarterly Newsletter. He is on the Board of Directors of the Victoria Film Festival in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he has been on the programming committee since 2003, and for which he writes film notes for the festival"s official programme guide.