Colonel McCormick Statue

A tribute to the founder of Baie-Comeau

If you don't have a photo of the Colonel, have you really visited Baie-Comeau? The bronze monument, inaugurated in 1956, is a must-see stop. Picnic tables allow you to have a bite to eat with him and admire the view of old Baie-Comeau.

The famous canoe is located at the end of Place LaSalle. The founder of Baie-Comeau, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, owner of the Chicago Tribune, can be found aboard his boat. He often visited the region around 1915 when he discovered the North Shore and dreamed of building his pulp and paper mill there.

The work of a man and a sublime panorama

The statue is erected in front of the paper mill that the Colonel founded. He contemplates his factory. Behind him, the view is completed by an exceptional landscape: the Saint-Laurent River, the Parc des Pionniers and the Sainte-Amélie heritage district. A district that was also named, like its church, after the first name of the Colonel's wife.

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Intersection of Cartier and Champlain avenues