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Browse the gallery below to see all the images, videos and audio recordings from the exhibition "François-Xavier Lachance: An Exceptional Craftsman and Builder of Wooden Boats on Île d'Orleans". Click on the various items to enlarge the pictures and read the descriptions, or to listen and see the audio and video recordings.
Architect's plan of a sloop sailboat, on which are presented the sections of profile, front, rear, as well as views of the deck and the cabin.
Technical plan signed by F-X Lachance, on a half-size scale, illustrating the section of a boat seen in profile, as well as three templates of pieces where will be fixed the eleven poles which form the structure of the boat.
Drawing of a yacht viewed in profile, showing the hull, the cabin and the mast.
Drawing of a yacht seen from above, showing the layout of the bridge.
Drawing of a yacht seen from above, showing the layout of the cabin and the hold.
Color photograph where two men, one young and one elderly, slide a white boat on a pile of snow to install it on the rear platform of a truck.
Black and white photograph where three men stand in a rowboat shop. A sign bearing the inscription Lucky boat. FX. Lachance. Construction de yachts et chaloupes is partially visible behind them. The men on the left (the Governor General) and on the right (a military) look at the boats. F-X Lachance is in the center, holding a hat.
Digitization of a newspaper article entitled « Un hangar rempli de chaloupes et de yachts, rasé par le feu » (A shed filled with rowboats and yachts, shaven by fire). It is written that the fire was discovered around one o'clock in the night and was controlled around four o'clock. This is a loss of $ 9,000, in addition to the $ 1,500 damage to the nearby residence.
Black and white photograph showing the foundation of a building, an almost completely burned wall of wood and some burned planks on the ground. A stone residence, whose left wall and the roof of the house are blackened by fire, is partially visible to the right of the image.
Sepia photograph showing a cluster of burned planks in the foreground. A two-storey residence damaged by fire is visible behind the remains.
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