Pointe-au-Père Maritime Historic Site

The lighthouse, built in 1909 and standing at 128 steps high, houses one of the few original prisms still intact in Quebec. The site also commemorates the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, a passenger ship that went down in the river in 1914 following a collision, claiming over 1,000 lives—one of the greatest maritime tragedies in Canadian history, largely overshadowed in collective memory by the Titanic's sinking just two years earlier. The Onondaga submarine, a former Canadian Navy vessel, can be explored with an immersive audio guide that recounts the daily lives of the 70 crew members who lived confined within its walls.