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![Black and white photograph of three white yachts, with hoisted sails, anchored near the shore. -Photographie noir et blanc de trois yachts blancs, aux voiles hissées, ancrés près de la rive.](https://www.communitystories.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/lachance-2-1024x434-1.jpg)
Discover the life and work of a man who embodies shipbuilding on Île d’Orléans. A self-taught craftsman, François-Xavier Lachance was a leading boat builder. Some of his vessels are still plying the seas. Lachance was also the last representative of a long tradition of wooden-boat building on the St. Lawrence estuary.