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Description:
Range lights, known as Vercheres Village, were established on May 1, 1902 to lead from the intersection of their alignment with that of the Contreceour Range Lights to the intersection of their alignment with that of the Verchères Traverse Range Lights.
The Annual Report of the Department of Marine for 1902 provides the following description of the range lights.
The front light is fixed white catoptric, elevated 44 feet above the summer level of the river; visible 12 miles in, and over a small arc on each side of, the line of range, and is shown from a square wooden lantern on a square wooden tower with sloping sides standing upon a cribwork pier, 380 feet S. 61° E. from the outer end of the village wharf.
The pier and tower are white and the lantern roof red; the height of the tower from the pier to the ventilator on the lantern is 31 feet.
The back light, distant 1,950 feet S. 54° 30' W. from the front light and 1,160 feet S. 88° 50' W., from the village church, is fixed white catoptric, elevated 85 feet above the summer level of the river, visible 15 miles in, and over a small arc on each side of, the line of range, and is shown from a square tower with sloping sides, consisting of an open steel framework painted brown, surmounted by a wooden watchroom painted white, and topped by a square wooden lantern painted red. The height of the tower from its base to the ventilator on the lantern is 65 feet.
The first keeper of the rear light was Fèlix Bourget, who received an annual salary of $70.
Location:
Located on the eastern pier that forms the marina at Verchères.
Latitude: 45.779444
Longitude: -73.356222
For a larger map of Verchères Village Range Front Lighthouse, click the lighthouse in the above map or get a map from: Mapquest.
Travel
Instructions: From Autoroute 30, take Exit 147 for Verchères and drive northwest on Montée Calixa Lavallée for 3.4 km (2.1 miles). When the road ends, turn right onto Route Marie Victorin (QC-132) and then make your first left onto Rue Madeleine. The Verchères Village Range Front Lighthouse is found on a breakwater at the marina at then end of Rue Madeleine.
The lighthouse is owned by the Canadian Coast Guard. Grounds open, tower closed.
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