La Martre Lighthouse, Heritage lighthouse in La Martre, Quebec, Canada

La Martre Lighthouse is an octagonal wooden tower with sloping sides, built in 1906 on the Gaspé Peninsula coast facing the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It retains its original clockwork mechanism, a cable-and-weight system that rotates the lighting module. The first lighthouse on the site, from 1876, was a tower erected on the roof of keeper Jean-Baptiste Gauthier's house.

The structure was built in 1906 to replace an earlier lighthouse from 1876 that had stood at this location. It served for over a century to guide ships through the coastal waters of the Gaspé Peninsula.

The lighthouse bears the name of La Martre, the Gaspé village where it stands, and its keepers' house recalls the life of the guardians who tended the light. The original clockwork mechanism, driven by a cable and weights, still turns the lighting module, a detail visitors can see on site.

The lighthouse stands in the municipality of La Martre on the north coast of the Gaspé Peninsula, facing the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is a recognized federal heritage building (1988) and a municipal heritage immovable (2013), so the tower and its wooden cladding are to be looked at rather than climbed.

The current tower, built in 1906, still houses its original clockwork mechanism: a cable-and-weight system that rotates the lighting module. Visitors can see this pre-electric drive inside the octagonal wooden structure, which was designated a heritage lighthouse on 22 September 2025.