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The West Coast Trail is a 75 km (47 mi) long backpacking trail following the southwestern edge of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It was built in 1907 to facilitate the rescue of survivors of shipwrecks along the coast, part of the treacherous Graveyard of the Pacific. It is now part of Pacific […]
For an update on what a Mise Tale is then please see Mise Tales One. Do You Want to Buy a Foghorn? Aberdeen’s Torry Coo on the market for £5,000Buyers lining up for foghorn Published: 28/09/2012 Evening Express A famous foghorn in Aberdeen has sparked a bidding war between prospective buyers desperate to own a piece of […]
Donna Marie (Sheppard) Viereck (January 8th, 1947 Whitney Pier, NS – February 26, 2012 Prince Rupert, BC) – friend of the lightkeepers. I met Donna for the first time in 1976 when I moved to Green Island lighthouse as Principal Keeper. The ship overnighted at the Prince Rupert Coast Guard Base, and such a reception […]
This is the information that started the whole Lighthouse Memories website. In 2005 I started to collect the names of lighthouse keepers, and the stations they had manned. Because of this list people sent me stories, documents and photos and the website was born. Click on the photo below to see the database pages […]
This is a promotion for my friend Frank Statham’s website Rough Radio – Wireless on the British Columbia Coast. As I started off collecting lighthouse keeper names for genealogy records, Frank started with a collection of photographs, and with his past work as a radio operator, his interest was sparked into creating a website to […]
The Passing of a Lot of Memories To include your memories in Annie’s memorial please click this link. – In Memorium posted in the Victoria Times-Colonist October 24, 2007 If any members of the family have photos or stories of the life on Sheringham Point lighthouse, I would be pleased to present them here. I […]