- bringing a little life into your lights
In the early twentieth century there were many navigational lights on the British Columbia coast maintained by individuals under contract. These were not lighthouses but pylons, piles, posts, rafts, or dolphins of wood or cement, or metal tanks made from disused military mooring buoys. Upon these moorings was placed a kerosene (coal oil) lamp which […]
– from Market Wire website July 26, 2011 14:20 ET Government of Canada to Restore Point Clark Lighthouse National Historic Site POINT CLARK, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – July 26, 2011) – The Honourable Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today announced the award of a $622,000 contract to restore Point Clark Lighthouse […]
– from Jeannie (Hartt) Nielsen (daughter of Ed Hartt, Senior Keeper on Triple Island 1954 – 1957) Ed and Eileen Hartt were lightkeepers for a number of years, on Lawyer Island, Triple Island, and Langara Island. The following is an excerpt from one of my mother’s manuscripts about life on Triple Island in the 1950s. It […]
Here is a very nice poster printed back in the 1980s during another period when the government was attempting to automate Canadian lighthouses. Titled “The Watchers”, the text is particularly appropriate now: “For more than a century they have kept watch. At first, for sailing ships on the BC coast. Today, mammoth cruise ships and container […]
This light was first made available to mariners on January 1st, 1921 to travel to the bustling port of Prince Rupert from the north. It was originally fired by a pressurized gas vapour lamp which would have been visible for over 12 miles (19 kilometers). Electric generators installed in the late 1960s replaced this […]
