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Bill S-215 – An Act to Protect Heritage Lighthouses

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Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act

Since April 2000 Canadian Senator Pat Carney has been working hard to get a bill through Parliament to protect Canadian Heritage Lighthouses. It passed during the week of May 7, 2008.

This bill will include buildings and equipment, including the main light on many of these stations – some being very old first-order Fresnel lenses imported from England in the early 1900s.

The normal procedure when a lightstation was unmanned was to burn it to the ground and maybe replace it with a solar-cell-charged, battery-operated, multiple-lamp array which operated only in the dark. Continue reading Bill S-215 – An Act to Protect Heritage Lighthouses →

It Was a Dark and Foggy Night . . .

Audio, Lighthouses

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Life Saving Patrol by Edward Moran (1925.12.3)

“It was a dark and foggy night. Me and Rex had to think quickly to warn strangers of the treacherous rocks. Without the safety halo of the lighthouse, there was only our lantern to warn the oncoming ship. Rex howled at the emerging moon and jumped in front of the lantern’s glow. Then it came to me-Morse code. I safely communicated to the ship DANGER ROCKS AHEAD. The ship turned away from the perilous rocks and we breathed a sigh of relief.” Continue reading It Was a Dark and Foggy Night . . . →