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Managing Organization:
Canadian Coast Guard
Notes:
A visitor to this site writes: "This is a busy lobster port and the old fishermen still use both towers for navigation....lining up the vertical red bars on both towers guides a ship visually through the deepest part of the very narrow entrance to the harbour."
Characteristic and Range: Fixed green.
Description of Tower: White, square pyramidal wooden tower with red lantern and red vertical stripe.
This light is operational
Date Established: 1842
Date Present Tower Built: 1879
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? Grounds only.
Directions:
From Route 104 (Trans-Canada Highway) take the exit for Havre Boucher. Turn left at a stop sign. After a short distance you will see the rear range light on a hill and the front range light about 1,429 feet (435.7 m.) away.
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