St. Omer is located on Chaleur Bay, roughly five kilometres west of Carleton. In 2002, Saint-Omer merged with Carleton to create the city of Carleton-Saint-Omer, which in 2005, was renamed Carleton-sur-Mer.

In 1910, Goold, Shapley, & Muir of Brantford, Ontario supplied the material to construct a steel column base to support a new lighthouse at St. Omer for $298, and the Quebec workshops of the Department of Marine built the base for $264. The next year, a light was established atop the base on the wharf at St. Omer, and the following Notice to Marines was published to advertise the new light:

GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE Chaleur Bay — St. Omer – Light established -A 6th order, dioptric, fixed red light, elevated 30 feet above high water and visible 7 miles from all points of approach by water, has been established on the outer end of the wharf at St. Omer, Chaleur Bay, Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The light is exhibited from a small, square, wooden building, supported on four steel columns and surmounted by a square wooden lantern. The sides of the building and lantern are painted white and the lantern roof red. The height of the structure from the deck of the wharf to the top of the ventilator on the lantern is 30 feet.

J.E. Landry was appointed the first keeper of the St. Omer Lighthouse at an annual salary of $80. He served for two years, and then G. Godbout took responsibility for the light in 1913. Keeper Godbout looked after the light until at least 1923.

The St. Lawrence Pilot in 1924 noted that the wharf at St. Omer extended 600 feet in a southerly direction from the shore but that the outer portion of the wharf was in ruins. The light at this time was at the outer end of the undamaged part of the wharf, and mariners were advised to give the light a berth of at least 150 feet to avoid the damaged portion of the wharf. Mariners were cautioned that it was impossible to attend the light in bad weather. Light Lists show that the wharf light at St. Omer was in operation through at least 1960.

There is no light at this location today, and little indication of the wharf that once served St. Omer.

J.E. Landry (1910 – 1912), H. Godbout (1913 – at least 1923).

References

1. Annual Report of the Department of Marine, various years.

No light exists at this location today.

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