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British Columbia History Along the Highways & Waterways: A Traveler's Guide to the Fascinating Facts, Intriguing Incidents and Lively Legends of Vancouver Island & the British Columbia Coast. Red Deer, Alberta: Red Deer College Press. pp. 100– 101. ISBN 0-88995-173-X. Twenty-Five Years of Newcastle Island. Nanaimo Visitor Information Centre.
It is there to mark the northbound entrance to Sarah Passage and is situated on the west side of Sarah Island. The light itself is a tower, square pyramidal in shape and made of steel. The tower is white and the square base is red. This is a staffed light consisting of a number of structures and a weather station. Brockton Point Lighthouse
Whaleback Light is a historic lighthouse marking the mouth of the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine. It is located on a rocky outcrop offshore southwest of Fort Foster and south of Wood Island in Kittery. The present tower was built in 1872. [2] [3] [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]
As of January 2020, there were 100 National Historic Sites designated in British Columbia, 13 of which are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first National Historic Sites to be designated in British Columbia were Fort Langley and Yuquot in 1923.
In 1851, twenty years after the establishment of Whaleback Lighthouse, the tower was shortened to 55 feet (17 m). Three years later, in 1854, the tower was fitted with a Fourth (4th) Order Fresnel lens. In 1878, a new 48-foot (15 m) cast-iron, brick-lined lighthouse tower was erected on the same foundation as the 1804 tower.
Departure Bay [1] is a bay in central Nanaimo, British Columbia, on the east coast of Vancouver Island. The surrounding neighbourhood is also referred to as "Departure Bay" [ 2 ] —once a settlement of its own, it was amalgamated into the City of Nanaimo in the 1970s.
The Entrance Island Lighthouse is one of 12 lighthouses part of the British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program, collecting coastal water temperature and salinity measurements everyday since 1936. [3] Their data show an increase in coastal water temperatures of 0.15 °C per decade.
Yuquot (/ ˈ j uː k w ɔː t /), also known as Friendly Cove, is a small settlement of around six people—the Williams family of the Mowachaht band—plus two full-time lighthouse keepers, located on Nootka Island in Nootka Sound, just west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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