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Featured in book and video Alone in the Night: Lighthouses of Georgian Bay, Manitoulin Island, and The North Channel.
Around the turn of the 20th-Century, when Great Lakes shipping was at its peak, Georgian Bay, Manitoulin Island and the North Channel had over 50 lighthouses. Today, half have been torn down. Many of these remaining towers are in a state of neglect. Their dwellings and fog plants have been destroyed. (The only fog plant left in this region is at Cove Island.)
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Red: Lighthouses still standing Blue: Lighthouses with destroyed auxillary buildings (fog plants, houses) Green: Lighthouses demolished |
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Difficulties in building the first lighthouses ...
The future of our lighthouses ...
How has the destruction happened?
How to order ...(Numbers correspond with the coloured numbers on above maps.)
| 1 | Badgeley Island: Earthquake turns out to be a ship hitting shore |
| 2 | Strawberry Island: Birth of Donald McKenzie at the lighthouse, 1883 |
| 3 | Little Current |
| 4 | Narrow Island: Shipwreck of the B.B. Buckhout Nov. 1912 |
| 5 | Clapperton Island: Was lightkeeper Benjamin Baker murdered in 1894? |
| 6 | Boyd Island: Lightkeeper William Martin trapped on an ice floe in 1892. |
| 7 | Kagawong Lighthouse: |
| 8 | Janet Head: Was lightkeeper Robert Boyter responsible for the death of Lydia Baxter in 1885? |
| 9 | Cape Roberts: A boy’s memories of lighthouse life |
| 10 | Mississagi Straits: The centre of bootlegging during prohibition |
| 11 | Blind River: Lighthouses built to service the booming lumber trade |
| 12 | Mississagi Island: Two men perish on the island in the lightkeeper’s absence |
| 13 | Thessalon: Esther Harvey (1915-1940) "The brave lady of the lighthouse." |
| 14 | Sulphur Island |
| 15 | Mckay/ Bruce Mines: Two lights to service Bruce Mines' former copper mines. |
| 16 | West Sister: Barged from North Sister |
| 17 | Great Duck: Lightkeeper and assistant stranded three days on an island, Dec. 22, 1949. |
| 18 | Providence Bay: Town feuds over switch in lightkeepers,1930. |
| 19 | Michael’s Bay: Lighthouse part of a long vanished lumber town |
| 20 | South Baymouth: Town benefits from shipwreck SS George A. Graham, 1917. |
| 21 | Manitowaning: Burning of steamer Manitoulin in 1882 |
| 22 | Lonely Island: Keeper Domonic Solomon accused of robbing dead from shipwreck Asia, 1882 |
| 23 | Cove Island: Keeper and family faces starvation, Winter 1860. |
| 24 | Flowerpot Island: Lightkeeper Dan Smith rescues crew from the Marion L. Breck, 1900. |
| 25 | Big Tub: The famous lightkeeper feud between Davis and Earl, 1885 |
| 26 | Cabot Head: Friends of Cabot Head rescue light and create museum. |
| 27 | Lion’s Head: Great storm of 1913 |
| 28 | Cape Croker: Memorable storms |
| 29 | Griffith Island: Lightkeeper G. Patterson finds corpse of a boy strapped to wood after 1882 storm |
| 30 | Presqu’ile: The only lighthouse with a dog as assistant lightkeeper (1873) |
| 31 | Owen Sound: Enterprising Capt. Smith fights Canadian Government for shipping harbour, 1860 |
| 32 | Meaford |
| 33 | Thornbury |
| 34 | Nottawasaga: In 1872, lightkeeper G. Collins and son rescue 24 people from the steamer Mary Ward |
| 35 | Collingwood: Life-saving station built in Collingwood in 1885 |
| 36 | Christian Island: Feud between keepers Hoar and Collins in 1891 |
| 37 | Hope Island: In 1890s, lightkeeper confesses on deathbed to murdering two fishermen. |
| 38 | Giants Tomb: A girl’s memories growing up at a lighthouse in the 1920s |
| 39 | Whiskey Island |
| 40 | Midland Point |
| 41 | Victoria Harbour |
| 42 | Brebeuf Island: Lightkeeper’s wife forced to walk home over frozen lake 1940 |
| 43 | Western Island: In late fall dwelling turns into block of ice, keeper uses cleats to get about. |
| 44 | Jones Island: All colours including day-glo orange were tried in attempts to make it stand out. |
| 45 | Red Rock Island: Two lighthouses destroyed by storms |
| 46 | Snug Harbour |
| 47 | Point au Baril: Ghost becomes part of family life |
| 48 | Gereaux Island: The Barrons: a family of eight on an island |
| 49 | Byng Inlet |
| 50 | Bustards Islands: Colourful keeper Tom Flynn (1928-1953). |
| 51 | French River: 1930s keeper R. Young’s wife dies but her body can’t be removed until spring. |
| 52 | Killarney East: Lightkeeper F. Solomon nearly dies of exposure when storm flips his boat |
| 53 | Killarney West: 1930s Lightkeeper hires hermit to run light when he is unavailable. |
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