Fred Pelletier
Fred was the assistant lighthouse keeper at Caribou Island at the same time as Wilbord Demers.
Details
Birth Date: Unknown?Birth certainty: Low
Death Date: Unknown?Death certainty: Low
Occupation: Lighthouse Keeper
Relationships
Related or Connected To: Wilbord Demers
Description or Context: Wilbord was a head lighthouse keeper at Caribou Island while Fred worked there.
Sources and Further Learning
Notes
From lighthousefriends.com: "In December 1904, there was much anxiety at Sault Ste. Marie for the safety of Demers and Fred Pelletier, his helper, after the tug Reid called at the island to retrieve the men at the end of the shipping season. The tug was unable to land due to heavy seas, but no one responded to persistent blasts of its whistle. A payment of $5,000 to the Reid Wrecking Company and $1,084 to the Sault Ste. Marie Tug Company that appeared in the Report of the Auditor General for 1904 – 1905 was attributed to the rescue of the lighthouse keepers at Caribou Island, and the men must have been saved as Keeper Demers served at Caribou Island until 1906."
Places: Caribou Island Lighthouse
Sources and Further Learning
Fred is possibility buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Sault Sainte Marie, Algoma District, Ontario. There are two Fred Pelletier buried there around the same time.