Grande Hermine

Grande Hermine (French: [ɡʁɑ̃d ɛʁmin]; "great ermine") was the name of the carrack that brought Jacques Cartier to Saint-Pierre on 15 June 1535, and upon which he discovered the estuary of the St. Lawrence River and the St. Lawrence Iroquoian settlement of Stadacona (near current-day Quebec City).

She is believed to be represented in the local flag of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (the yellow ship).

La Grande Hermine was the second ship Jacques Cartier used when exploring the St. Lawrence River.

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.

[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.