Cape Mudge Lighthouse is located on
Quadra Island
Quadra Island is a large island off the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Discovery Islands, in the Strathcona Regional District.
Etymology
In 1903, the island was named after the Peruvian Spanish n ...
which is off Campbell River, on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Cape Mudge was named by Captain
George Vancouver
Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what a ...
in 1792 after
Zachary Mudge
Admiral Zachary (variously Zacharia or Zechariah) Mudge (22 January 1770 – 22 October 1852) was an officer in the British Royal Navy, best known for serving in the historic Vancouver Expedition.
Family background
Mudge was one of 20 children ...
, who had served on
HMS ''Discovery'', and in 1796 on
HMS ''Providence'' in this area.
Built in 1898, the original lighthouse was a wooden, two-storey building topped with a lantern on the roof. It later served as lighthouse assistant keeper's residence after the current lighthouse opened in 1916 and was demolished after 1949.
From 1936 to 1985, the Cape Mudge Lighthouse was part of the
British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program
The British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program is a sea surface temperature and salinity monitoring program on the Canadian coast of the northeast Pacific Ocean. The program is administered by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and regroups 12 ...
, collecting coastal water temperature and salinity measurements for the
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO; french: Pêches et Océans Canada, MPO), is a department of the Government of Canada that is responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs in support of Canada's economic, ecological and sc ...
everyday for 49 years.
See also
*
List of lighthouses in British Columbia
This is a list of lighthouses in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
Lighthouses
See also
* List of lighthouses in Canada
References
External links
*
List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals''Canadian Coast Guard''. Retrieved 19 Marc ...
*
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 ( ...
References
External links
Aids to Navigation''Canadian Coast Guard''
Lighthouses in British Columbia
Heritage sites in British Columbia
Lighthouses on the Canadian Register of Historic Places
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