Lighthouses

A tower built to carry a navigational light.

Historic places
316Historic places
Built
1758–1987Built
Provinces and territories
8Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 258
  • Provincial 38
  • Municipal 20
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Ontario67
  • Nova Scotia54
  • Newfoundland and Labrador49
  • Prince Edward Island46
  • Quebec43
  • British Columbia34
  • New Brunswick21
  • Manitoba2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 53 of the 303 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1758LighttowerSambro Island, Nova Scotia
  2. 1796Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse National Historic Site of CanadaAmherstburg, Ontario
  3. 1806Île Verte LighthouseNotre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 13 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 143 of these 316 places. These names come up most often.

  1. Department of Marine and Fisheries50 places
  2. Department of Marine8 places
  3. Department of Transport6 places
  4. John Brown5 places
  5. J.T. Nevill4 places
  6. Engineering Branch4 places

All 316 places

Often found together

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