On Site Eye Exams Arranged with
Bridgewater Optometry
902-543-5433
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Tom Carton
Optometrist/Owner of Bridgewater and Lunenburg Optometry
Dr. Carton was born in Bridgewater too many years ago to mention. Although his family moved quite a bit when he was young his mother, a Bridgewater girl, always brought the family back to Green Bay for the summers instilling in Dr. Carton a love of the South Shore and a desire to live here someday.
Dr. Carton studied engineering at Saint Francis Xavier before enrolling in the Nova Scotia Technical College in Halifax. After completing the third year of the Architecture program he returned to X to earn a BSc in biology. He followed that endeavor with a graduate year in psychology at Dalhousie eventually finding himself enrolled in the Doctor of Optometry program at The New England College of Optometry in Boston where he earned membership in the Optometric Gold key Honour Society. Completing his residency at Walter Reid Army Medical Centre in Washington DC. Dr Carton graduated with honours in 1979. He opened his first practice in his home town of Houlton, Maine. Two years later he moved to Oromocto, NB. Where he practiced for 20 years in partnership with Dr. Joe White until moving to Maine to care for his elderly father.
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Brianna Samson
Optometrist for Bridgewater and Lunenburg Optometry
Dr. Samson is native to a small town in Southern Ontario but fell in love with the East Coast when attending St. Francis Xavier University for Human Kinetics with a minor in Health Science. She went across the pond to Cardiff University for her Optometry degree (Cardiff, Wales, 2015) and worked in several practices in Southern Wales during her time training. Once back, she completed her Masters in Vision Science at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, On, 2021). She is excited to be back on the East Coast where she can enjoy ocean side hikes and canoes on the lakes with her husband and dog.