HMCS La Malbaie was a Royal Canadian Navy revised Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War.

[3][4][5] The "corvette" designation was created by the French as a class of small warships; the Royal Navy borrowed the term for a period but discontinued its use in 1877.

[6] During the hurried preparations for war in the late 1930s, Winston Churchill reactivated the corvette class, needing a name for smaller ships used in an escort capacity, in this case based on a whaling ship design.

[9] La Malbaie was ordered 20 February 1941 as part of the Revised 1940–41 Flower class building program.

They also came with heavier secondary armament with 20-mm anti-aircraft guns carried on the extended bridge wings.

[9] La Malbaie was laid down by Marine Industries Ltd. at Sorel on 22 March 1941 and launched on 25 October of that year.

The work for her first overhaul was done at Halifax from 11 August to 20 December 1942 after La Malbaie had developed mechanical trouble (what was this?).

She joined the Western Local Escort Force (WLEF) in late June 1942 after workups.