Grande Hermine

A life-size wooden replica of the vessel was built in Quebec in 1914 and was featured at the Expo 67 in Montreal (1967) where she served as a floating restaurant. Following the Expo the replica was moved to Quebec City and put on static display in an artificial pond located in a city park, where she remained for at least three decades; poorly maintained. She was broken up in the same park where she sat for years.^[1]

Another unrelated replica, possibly based on the steel hull of a 1914 ferry or a 1941 icebreaker,^[2] was purchased by a businessman with the intention of moving her to Ontario and re-opening the restaurant or perhaps turning the boat into a casino, however, the person who was behind these ideas died before his ideas came to life. The ship was moved to Jordan Harbour in 1997 and sat there unused.^[3] In January 2003, the ship was destroyed by an arson fire. The burned-out hull sat in the harbour, located between the 55- and 57-kilometre markers on the Queen Elizabeth Way.

On December 20, 2021, the 4 masts were removed due to unsafe conditions and years of deterioration, with the entirety of the ship being removed sometime in the future.

Under order of the Canadian Coast Guard, on October 22, 2024, the demolition and removal of the remaining parts of the ship began and remediation was completed by December 2024.

two articles (in French) about the Expo 67 Grande Hermine replica: 1 2

pictures of the replica ship at Expo 67: 1 2 3 4

pictures of the replica ship arriving in Quebec City: 1 2