The Langara Point Lighthouse is a manned
lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
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located atop a scenic bluff on the northwest corner of
Langara Island. It is one of only two lighthouses in
Haida Gwaii – the other being at Cape St. James (now an automated station), at the southern tip of the islands. Both were built in 1913.
During
World War II, the lighthouse was painted
camouflage green and a
radar station was built here to monitor the
North Pacific.
The original light, still in use today, is a first-order
Fresnel lens (the largest type of lighthouse lens) manufactured by
Chance Brothers of
England. Each side of the lens is over 8’ tall and 5’ wide with a focal length of 3’
The lighthouse is easily seen from the water and tours are possible via
helicopter. Guests to Langara Island can enjoy a 1-2 hour tour of the lighthouse and its surrounding grounds, usually including a trip up to the top of the light tower, as well as coffee or tea with the lightkeepers.
The Langara Light is one of 12 lighthouses part of the
British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program, collecting coastal water temperature and salinity measurements everyday since 1936.
Keepers
* Head Keepers: James T. Forsyth 1913–1918
* William J. Stinson 1918–1919
* J. McCann 1919
* George Armstrong 1919–1932
* H. Greenwood 1932–1936
* Gordon Odlum 1941–1942
* William Norman Kinnear 1943–1945
* Neil Lange 1945–1947
* Richard Crawford 1948–1950
* Otto Lindstrom 1950–1953
* George Brown 1953–1957
* Edward Albert Hartt 1957–1963
* Wilf Redlac 1963–1964
* Maurice Collette 1967–1971
* Ken Wallace 1971–1973
* Tom E. Carr 1973–1975
* Charles Redhead 1975–1982
* Edward J. Ashe 1982–1983
* Kenneth Brunn 1983–1989
* Warren Kennedy 1989–1992
* Gordon Schweers 1992–2010
* Stanley Westhaver 2010–present
Langara Point
Lighthouse Friends
See also
* List of lighthouses in British Columbia
* List of lighthouses in Canada
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 ( ...
* Henri de Miffonis
References
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External links
Aids to Navigation
Canadian Coast Guard
Picture of Langara Point Lighthouse
Lighthouses completed in 1913
Lighthouses in British Columbia
Heritage sites in British Columbia
1913 establishments in British Columbia
Lighthouses on the Canadian Register of Historic Places
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