In 1980 Cheticamp Boatbuilders first opened their doors. Jean Paul and Yvon Gaudet, along with their father, Joseph, were operating a contracting business and they decided to diversify their business by opening a boat building shop.
Cheticamp, located on the famous Cabot Trail, is an Acadian fishing village near the Northumberland Strait and the Gulf of St Lawrence. When Cheticamp Boatbuilders first started, they hired Mr. Kenneth Fraser Sr, as their master boat builder in order to teach our employees this new trade.