By Pepper Parr
January 22nd, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
She was a great ship with a proud battle history.
Julie van der Muellen created this 10-foot model made out of Lego.
Julie assembled and donated her 10-foot-long HMCS Haida to the Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton. It will be archived as a museum relic and displayed in a glass display case.
Julie van der Muellen with her father and a 10 foot Lego model of HMCS Haida.
It took somewhere between 40, to 50 thousand Lego pieces to finish the model.
Her Dad, Peter, tells us that Julie has been playing with Lego since the age of three. “Everytime we gave the other children in the family Lego as a gift Julie would immediately take it from them and build a model of something.
Julie heads off to Denmark where she will be working for the Lego organization in Denmark as a designer. She will be an adult working full-time designing projects that people can build.
HMCS Haida: She weathered well.
Who said dreams do not come true?
The model is at the Warplane Heritage Museum in storage until the display case is built. We will let you know when it is public.
I look forward to getting to see a ship I once served on as an 19-year-old when I was a seaman in the Royal Canadian Navy.
