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The lighthouse in Point Clark. Point Clark is a lakefront cottage community on Lake Huron, in the municipality of Huron-Kinloss, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 15 kilometres south of Kincardine and 40 kilometres north of Goderich. Main streets include Huron Road and Lake Range Road. Point Clark is served by Highway 21 (Ontario).
Point Clark Lighthouse is located in a beach community, Point Clark, Ontario, near a point that protrudes into Lake Huron.Built between 1855 and 1859 under the instructions of the Board of Works, Canada West, it is one of the few lighthouses on the Great Lakes to be made primarily from stone.
Point Clark At the southern end of Huron Kinloss is the cottage settlement of Point Clark. It stretches from the southern edge of Huron-Kinloss to the mouth of the Pine River and Concession 4. Although many cottages are used seasonally, about one third are full-time homes. Lurgan Beach Between Bruce Beach and Point Clark is Lurgan Beach.
In 1855, John Brown, [5] a builder from Thorold, Ontario, was contracted to build eleven lighthouses and keepers' dwellings on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay between Point Clark and Christian Bay. Chantry Island Lighthouse. Eventually, only six of the towers were completed. These were:
Point clark lighthouse. Six Imperial Towers were built on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay in Ontario, all first lit in 1858 or 1859, because commercial shipping traffic was increasing on the Great Lakes between Canada and the U.S. due to new trade agreements and the opening of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal locks in 1855. [16]
All six Imperial towers, along with a limestone lightkeeper's dwelling, were constructed by John Brown (builder) from Thorold, Ontario, a contractor and stonemason. [11] The design aspects of the tower are virtually identical to those of the Point Clark Lighthouse, well described in a Government of Canada document. [12]
Point Clark Lighthouse, Ontario, designated in 2015. The Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act (French: Loi sur la protection des phares patrimoniaux) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada (designated Bill S-215) for the designation and preservation of historically significant Canadian lighthouses. It was passed by the Canadian Parliament in May 2008.
Sheringham Point Lighthouse Green Island Lighthouse, St. Lawrence middle estuary. This is a list of lighthouses in Canada.These may naturally be divided into lighthouses on the Pacific coast, on the Arctic Ocean, in the Hudson Bay watershed, on the Labrador Sea and Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the St. Lawrence River watershed (including the Great Lakes), and on the Atlantic seaboard.