Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive Shipyard, Maritime museum in Les Éboulements, Canada

Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive Shipyard is a former wooden shipbuilding yard on the Saint Lawrence River in Les Éboulements, Quebec, now the Charlevoix Maritime Museum. Its riverside grounds hold the slipways and workshops of the yard along with three preserved wooden schooners, including the Jean-Yvan and the Marie-Clarisse, displayed out of the water.

Shipbuilding at Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive began in the 18th century, when schooners were launched from the shore for the timber and farm trade along the Saint Lawrence. The Govain family opened a yard in 1946 that built wooden cargo schooners until the 1960s, when steel and road transport ended the trade. The site became a maritime museum in 1984.

The site is run as the Musée maritime de Charlevoix, and its collection centres on the wooden schooners built and sailed from this bank of the Saint Lawrence. Exhibits show the tools and techniques of the shipwrights, and the preserved hulls let visitors read the construction directly. The museum also documents the river trade that these vessels served.

The site is located on Rue de l'Église and offers parking, picnic areas, and a walking trail that runs about 4 kilometers along the river. Wear comfortable shoes since you will explore both indoor exhibits and outdoor spaces where the preserved vessels are displayed.

The shipyard's collection centres on the wooden schooner Jean-Yves, built in 1958 and later converted for museum use; visitors can step below deck into its hold. The site also keeps the covered construction slip where hulls were assembled, one of the last of its kind on the Charlevoix shore.