If you step from the Marine Art Gallery into Yves Berube’s small seaside home your first impression will be that you’ve stumbled into a maritime museum that lost its curator some years ago.
A 100 year old fishing boat forms the centerpiece for a jumble of ship models, marine artifacts and miscellaneous treasures from the bottom of the sea. Ship boards hang askew above an overflowing shelf of nautical reference books. Paintings in various states of completion lean everywhere. It looks like the dwelling of a man obsessed with the sea in every detail, and it is.
As a young boy Yves grew up within hailing distance of the huge freighters that sailed the St. Lawrence and this more than anything started his obsession with maritime life. In later years he went off to sea to

- Angus Walters Bluenose Museum, Lunenburg
- Archives and Collections Society, Ontario
- Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg
- L'Heritage Canadien du Quebec, Montreal
- Musée Maritime du Quebec (JF Bernier), l'Islet sur Mer
- Musée Maritime de Charlevoix, Quebec
- Musée Pointe-au-Père
- Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax
- Association des Armateurs du St-Laurent
- Bell Freight Inc
- Canada Seafood Ltd
- Deep Sea Trawlers Lunenburg
- Department of National Defense
- Dumarin Inc
- Groupe Océan Inc
- Institut Maritime du Quebec
- Interlines Shipping Canada Ltd
- Loto-Quebec
- Magazine Maritime
- McAllister Towing and Salvage New York
work on those very same ships and during this time he studied, sketched and painted, always refining his skills.His paintings now appear in film documentaries and on book covers and are displayed in numerous museums
- Mediterranean Shipping Ltd
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Port of New York and New Jersey Authority New York
- Thien and Heyenga Shipping Co Germany
- Transport Canada
- Trois-Rivieres Remorqueurs Ltée
- Unisys Halifax
- Wagenborg Shipping Co Denmark
- Zim-America-Israel Shipping Co.
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and international collections. His art commissions come from anywhere on the globe.
Yves is also a member of the Canadian Society of Marine Artists.