The government eventually agreed to purchase the "cursed" ship from its captain, and subsequently renamed it and moved it out of Atlantic Canada, selling it to a fishing corporation on the Pacific Coast where it remains in service today as the Freeport.

[11] In May 1971, an anxious Acadian fishing population demanded a public hearing into the safety of the Marc Guylaine, and 400 people met at the Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël community centre where an "action group" was commissioned to study the issue.

[14] Haché, the captain of the Marc Guylaine, subsequently found he could not hire any local fishermen to man his ship, and petitioned the provincial Ministry of Fisheries to offset his financial losses incurred.

[2][18] Écoutez mes amis / Entendez-vous le ventQui hurle dans la nuit / Que c'en est énervantÉcoutez mes amis / Ce chalutier qui crieEt la mer qui ricane / C'est le Lady DorianneFor several years, the legend of the "cursed" ships became a regular report in the media.

[11][20] In 1973, Stompin' Tom Connors wrote The Curse of the Marc Guylain, referring to the three sister ships as "three floating coffins on the sea".

[21] Calixte Duguay, a French Acadian songwriter, and performer also wrote the song "La Complainte du Lady Dorianne" on the same subject.

[23] In 2008, Lighthouse Productions contracted filmmaker Paul-Émile d'Entremont to film a documentary seeking the wreckage of the Lady Dorianne, which was theorised to be sitting 240 feet beneath sea level, as the only known shipwreck in the area.