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Cape Enrage Lighthouse

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Cape Enrage Lighthouse
Cape Enrage Lighthouse
Map
LocationCape Enrage, New Brunswick, Canada Edit this at Wikidata
Coordinates45°35′36″N 64°46′49″W / 45.59344°N 64.78038°W / 45.59344; -64.78038
Tower
Constructed1868 Edit this on Wikidata
Constructionlumber (tower), concrete (foundation) Edit this on Wikidata
Automated1980s Edit this on Wikidata
Height9.2 m (30 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Shapesquare Edit this on Wikidata
Markingswhite (tower), red (lantern), red (guard rail) Edit this on Wikidata
OperatorCape Enragé Adventure Centre[1]
Fog signal3 blasts every 60s.
Light
First lit16 November 1870 Edit this on Wikidata
Focal height40.7 m (134 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Range10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi) Edit this on Wikidata
CharacteristicFl G 6s Edit this on Wikidata
Original light Edit this at Wikidata
Constructed1838 Edit this on Wikidata
Constructionlumber Edit this on Wikidata
Shapesquare Edit this on Wikidata
First lit1840 Edit this on Wikidata
Deactivated1870 Edit this on Wikidata
Focal height161 ft (49 m) Edit this on Wikidata
CharacteristicF W Edit this on Wikidata

The first lighthouse in the Upper Bay of Fundy, started in 1838 and completed in 1840, is located at Cape Enrage. It has been automated and unmanned since the 1980s, but it has recently become a popular tourist destination, as a result of a concentrated effort by local students to renovate the property and run it as a summer project. Frommer's travel guide lists it as one of the 'Best Views in Canada.'[2]

History

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view of lighthouse and Nova Scotia

Acadian sailors made early mention of 'Cap Enragé,' and after the Acadian expulsion, British settlers anglicised the name to Cape Enrage. During the 1820 and 30s, Cape Enrage contested as the location of the first lighthouse in Chignecto Bay, and the site was selected as the preferred location. The lighthouse was completed in 1840.[3] A variety of boathouses and temporary lighthouse keeper's houses were built over the next decades, but were frequently damaged or destroyed in the region's numerous storms and harsh winters. The lighthouse itself was heavily damaged in one storm in the 1840s, and was extensively repaired. The current lighthouse keeper's house dates from 1952.

The lighthouse was automated in the late 1980s by the Canadian Coast Guard, and the last lighthouse keeper, Noel Justison, left the property in 1988. The property quickly began to suffer from neglect and vandalism, and by 1993 all of the buildings except the lighthouse were scheduled for demolition by the government. However, in 1993 a small group of high school students from Moncton, under the supervision of Dennison Tate, their physics teacher, began a restoration project at the site, renovating all of the buildings and slowly turning the site into a tourist destination.[citation needed] From 1993 to 2009 Cape Enrage Interpretive Centre, a not-for-profit, student-run organisation, maintained the property and the students also offered climbing, rappelling, and kayaking in the summer months through the for-profit business, Cape Enrage Adventures. In 1995 the keepers house transferred from the Canadian Coast Guard to Province of New Brunswick along with 4+ acres of land. In the summer of 2004 the Canadian Coast Guard formally transferred ownership of the lighthouse to Cape Enrage Adventures and Cape Enrage Interpretive Centre.[citation needed]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Canada: Southern New Brunswick". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  2. ^ 'Best Views in Canada'
  3. ^ For a summary of the debate, see for example, Jeffrey P. Ward (2009) Head of the Bay: A History of the Maringouin Peninsula, Bay of Fundy, Canada, Sackville: Tantramar Heritage Trust, p. 96. The competing locations were Grindstone Island and Apple River.
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