Chrome Island Lighthouse is a
light station established in 1891 that assists traffic in the region of
Deep Bay, British Columbia
Deep Bay is an unincorporated area on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada across Baynes Sound from Denman Island which has a government marina in a naturally protected harbour. It is situated on Highway 19A north of Q ...
,
Denman Island
Denman Island, or Sla-dai-aich (Taystayic), its Indigenous name, is one of the Northern Gulf Islands and part of the Comox Valley Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member of the Islands Trust group of islands and is home ...
, and
Hornby Island
Hornby Island of British Columbia, Canada, is one of the two northernmost Gulf Islands, located near Vancouver Island's Comox Valley, the other being Denman Island.
A small community of 1,016 residents (as of the 2016 census), Hornby is home to ...
. It is currently a manned station, though in recent years the
Canadian Coast Guard
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; french: links=no, Garde côtière canadienne, GCC) is the coast guard of Canada. Formed in 1962, the coast guard is tasked with marine search and rescue (SAR), communication, navigation, and transportation issues in ...
has considered automating it.
Along with electronic navigational aids, the five-second-flash lighthouse is about above water level (depending on tides). The station has a helicopter landing deck and rescue boat.
The light is one of the 12 locations 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 ...
, and has collected 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 ...
since 1961.
Keepers
* Tom H. Piercy 1891–1898
* William McDonagh 1898–1901
* Walter Gordon 1901–1906
* John Doney 1906–1914
* James Fredrick Street 1914–1917
* Albert Doney 1917–1919
* Daniel O'Brien 1919–1922
* G. Allan Couldery 1922–1939
* Eugene Alexander Moden 1939–1953
* Oscar Edwards 1953–1957
* D.P. Gardner 1957–1960
* Jim W. Bruton 1960–1964
* William Edward Gardiner 1964–1977
* Maurice Collette 1977–1979
* Gerald Watson 1979–1980
* Terrance Stewart 1980–1985
* Charles Thomson 1986–1997
* Barry Shaw 1997–1998
* Charles Thomson 1998–2007
* Roger Williamson 2007–present
Chrome Island B.C.
Lighthouse Friends
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 March ...
* 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
Chrome Island Light
Lighthousefriends.com
Lighthouses of British Columbia
Aids to Navigation
''Canadian Coast Guard''
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Lighthouses completed in 1891
Lighthouses in British Columbia
1891 establishments in British Columbia
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