Carter Island Lighthouse (Lockeport)

Carter Island Lighthouse was established in 1872 on Carter Island, one of five small islands within Lockeport Harbour on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Built by James A. Hayden for $460, the original light was a square wooden tower topped by a wooden octagonal lantern, and keeper James Lloyd first exhibited its fixed red light on September 10, 1872. The light was later improved in 1896 with a seventh-order Chance Brothers lens.

A new lighthouse was built on the island in 1930, combining the roles of dwelling and tower into a two-storey building surmounted by a square wooden lantern, accompanied by a fog signal building, boathouse, and oil shed. That structure stood until 1982, when caretakers for the historic buildings could no longer be found; the lighthouse and all of its outbuildings except the fog signal building were then demolished, and a modern circular fiberglass tower was erected on the site.

The fiberglass aid stands about 9.1 metres tall and is marked with two red horizontal stripes. Neither the 1872 nor the 1930 lighthouse survives today, and Carter Island sits just offshore from Lockeport along the Lighthouse Route, best seen from the wharf area at the end of Upper Water Street or from boat passages into the inner harbour.