The house
An 1896 Italianate villa
A bed and breakfast is rather more than a bed and a breakfast. Still, we know those two matter most: our mattresses are top of the line, with quilted protectors and professionally pressed sheets.
Beyond their room, guests have the front hall, the parlour, and a kitchen of their own. The hall, with its grand staircase, antique organ, and oak escritoire, is the right place to write a postcard. The parlour is furnished in antiques, with a Mason & Risch upright grand.
The guest kitchen upstairs is air-conditioned and properly equipped: its own refrigerator, a full-size oven and range, microwave, toaster, coffee maker, and kettle. Make lunch or supper whenever you like.
Every room has air conditioning and a TV, and the Wi-Fi reaches every corner. The yard is ringed by trees some 130 years old, half sun and half shade. The screened veranda is made for a drink before the beach, or after it.
The whole house, yours
Five rooms make an intimate house party. Families gather here, wedding parties sleep here, and writers retreat here. To book the whole house, write to info@legriffon.ca.
Marrying at the beach? Le Pavillon Parlee, our event hall at the west end of Parlee Beach, opens in May 2027, a few minutes’ drive away.
The house at 426 Main Street
For two decades the house was Maison Vienneau, a four-star inn kept with great care by Marie and Norbert Vienneau. We renamed it Le Griffon in 2017, after the Gryphon in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and kept the care.
- 1881
- Dominique “Baratte” Richard arrives from the United States to build a major shoe factory in Shediac, and buys land at the corner of Main and Vautour (now Gallagher) streets.
- 1896
- From plans he brought north, his carpenters build the villa onto an 1865 farmhouse.
- 1914
- After two fires at his factory, he sells to Albert Webster.
- 1921
- John Kelly, Mayor of Shediac, buys the house. His family stays 27 years.
- 1948
- Nora and Mary Kelly sell to Lelianne Doiron, who sells to Léo Vienneau.
- 1949
- The Vienneau family moves in, for 67 years.
- 1997
- Norbert Vienneau and his family open Maison Vienneau, a four-star inn.
- 2017
- Sébastien and Heather arrive from Newfoundland with two transport trucks full of treasures, and the house becomes Le Griffon. It’s with the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle that Alice learns the Lobster Quadrille.
- 2023
- The BBC’s Race Across the World and TV5’s Destination Francophonie film here, for broadcast in 2024.
Across the street
Breakfast, included in your stay, at Adorable Chocolat, our chocolaterie and café.
Seven doors down
Supper at Le Moque-Tortue, our bistro: lobster, oysters, and more than 2,300 board games.
And everything else
A drive-in, a smokehouse, Parlee Beach, and three festivals in 2027.
Le Griffon
426 Main Street, Shediac, NB E4P 2G4
(506) 532-5412 · info@legriffon.ca
Check-in from 4 to 9pm · Open year-round · Free parking