HMCS Esquimalt Military Museum, 2025.

Please check out the museum's digital exhibit The Brodeur Family (in English) or (en Français). This huge collection documents, mostly with photographs, three generations of the Brodeur family – refered to as 'an RCN dynasty'.

The 'dynasty' started with Louis Philippe Brodeur (1862-1924) who was the prime mover in the establishment of the Canadian Naval Service on 4 May 1910.

His son, Victor Gabriel Brodeur, was in the first class of seven cadets to join the fisheries cruiser CGS Canada, in anticipation of the formation of the RCN. With the arrival of HMCS Niobe a year later, all seven transferred as midshipmen to Niobe. He served with distinction for 37 years; his last position being Commanding Officer Pacific Coast, until his retirement in 1946.

Victor's son, Nigel David Brodeur, (1932-Ret. 1988) graduated as a midshipman in 1952, and ended his career serving as Deputy Chief-of-Staff Operations, Reinforcement and Resupply to NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, and (concurrently) as Chief of Staff to NATO's Commander-in-Chief Western Atlantic. Much of the exhibit is based on his personal archives.