- bringing a little life into your lights
Reprinted with permission from Jack Knox, Times Colonist *************************** New threat to lighthouses illuminated By Jack Knox, Times Colonist April 3, 2012 Imagine the fuss if the owner of a 152-year-old downtown heritage building just walked away from the structure, allowed it to crumble. But the Race Rocks lighthouse isn’t downtown. It’s plunked in the waters […]
In June 22, 2011 I published an article about the Triple Island 3rd order lens which has now been replaced with a flashlight (see the article). I have never spent any work time on Triple Island, but I have landed there once or twice with the Coast Guard helicopters as a passenger. I never […]
I did not think that Mise Tales Two would come out so soon. If you do not know what Mise Tales is then please see Mise Tales One. January 25, 2012 I received a comment today from Len O’Hara at the Gabriola Georgia Strait Cam website. He said: I just wanted to let you […]
Every lighthouse light has its own characteristics – 1. the number of flashes per minute, 2. it’s range, which is dependent on intensity, lenses, and height, and 3. the number of beams from the light, plus other identifying features. Flashes per Minute The number of flashes per minute is regulated by the speed of rotation […]
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 […]
From the Canada.com website (NOTE: This is an image from the website. If the text is too small, hold down the CTRL key (lower left) on your keyboard and rotate the middle wheel on your mouse. The text will become larger or smaller depending on which direction you move the mouse wheel.) This applies to […]
The idea is very simple, and was given to me by the Edgarton Lighthouse Children’s Memorial article in The Martha’s Vineyard Times. The people built a memorial walkway around the lighthouse and “envisioned a smooth sea of stone around the base of the lighthouse, a terrace paved with small granite blocks engraved with the names […]
– from Campbell River Mirror News by Kristen Douglas, online under BC Local News The chief of the We Wai Kai First Nation is not pleased the Strathcona Regional District may seek heritage protection for the Cape Mudge Lighthouse. Chief Ralph Dick says the land surrounding the Quadra Island lightstation belongs to the We Wai […]
– from Campbell River Mirror News by Kristen Douglas, online under BC Local News A petition to save four area lighthouses could have been circulating by now if Strathcona Regional District directors had been more informed, says the district’s vice-chair. Jim Abram, the vice-chair and a former lightkeeper who has been fighting to save lightstations […]
– from the Goldstream Gazette.com “. . . The Trial Island lighthouse was built in 1906, and is one of 27 lighthouses in the province that are permanently staffed. Though it is not currently in danger of being shut down or defunded, there has been plenty of debate in recent years at the federal level […]