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The lighthouse" target="_blank">Lighthouse Point lighthouse" target="_blank">Lighthouse is an active lighthouse" target="_blank">lighthouse in Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick on Drews Head, as it was known, on the western side of the bay.




History


The first lighthouse" target="_blank">lighthouse was inaugurated on 15 January 1876 and consisted of a white wooden quadrangular tower with balcony and red lantern attached to the keeper's house; the light was at 45 feet (14 m) of height above sea level and emitted a fixed white light. In 1900 was activated a hand foghorn and in 1905 a seventh-order lens and lamp substituted the original lamp and reflectors; the new fixed white light was visible up to 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi). In 1915 a fourth-order lens was set up and in the 1960s a new metal square pyramidal skeletal tower was built to substitute the older.
The current lighthouse" target="_blank">lighthouse was erected in 1984 and consist of a 8 metres (26 ft) fiberglass cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern. The light is positioned at 14.5 metres (48 ft) above sea level and emits one white flash 3 seconds long in a 6 seconds period visible up to a distance of 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi). The lighthouse" target="_blank">lighthouse is completely automated and managed by the Canadian Coast Guard with the identification code number CCG 83.




Keepers


Ezra Munro (1875 – 1882)
Edward Dukes Snell (1882 – 1892)
John C. Conley (1892 – 1904)
John "Melvin" Eldridge (1904 – 1926)
Roy A. Sparks (1928 – at least 1939)
Hazen Holmes (1952 – 1957)
Garnett William Eldridge (1957 – 1967)
Edward N. Wilson (1967 – 1970)
C.A. Stuart (1970 – 1983)
R.C. Stuart (1983 – 1984)




See also


List of lighthouses in New Brunswick
List of lighthouses in Canada




References






External links


Canadian Coast Guard: Aids to Navigation

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