lightkeeper

noun, a person in charge of a lighthouse (COD)

“Len, he used to be lightkeeper out on the Scotch Bonnet. Now that’s up where Wellington is. You know, Prince Edward County? Well he was lightkeeper up there. Then he went from there down to Hill Island as lightkeeper.”

“The only employment on Simcoe was farmers and lightkeeper. And the fishermen. And if you didn’t do either of those things, you had to get off.”

“That’s the lighthouses on Main Duck. Yeah, there was three of them out there, the lightkeeper, the assistant lightkeeper, and they had the—I call it the wireless out there—but the ship-to-shore”.

“My great-great-grandfather and grandmother, they were lightkeepers out there. And they had a house down on Four Mile … They used to row out there and stay in the light, light the light. There was never a foghorn. But anyway, they got pneumonia one fall, and they died out there.”