Pointe-au-Père Lighthouse

Pointe-au-Père Lighthouse stands on the Saint Lawrence near Rimouski, Quebec, at a long-important pilot station for the Lower Saint Lawrence. The site’s first lighthouse, a wooden octagonal tower built in 1859, was acquired by the Government of Canada in 1861 and destroyed by fire in 1867. A replacement rose that same year, and the present lighthouse, completed in 1909, became the third on the site. At 108 feet, or 33 metres, it is the second tallest lighthouse in Canada and is notable for its central cylinder supported by eight concrete buttresses. The station closed in 1997, and the site is now preserved for visitors as part of a larger maritime historic complex.