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Point Atkinson Lighthouse is a lighthouse erected on
Lighthouse Friends In 1889, Canadian Pacific Steamships demanded that a fog alarm be added. This was located in a separate building to the west of the lighthouse. It had a rotating drum which was driven by steam to make an audible sound. In 1902, this was replaced by a diaphone fog alarm in which a slotted piston moved inside a similarly slotted cylinder.
The present lighthouse was built in 1914 on granite boulders jutting out into Burrard Inlet in West Vancouver, Canada. The concrete structure was considered at the time innovative in Point Atkinson Lighthouse - Maintaining the Light
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Point Atkinson Lighthouse is a lighthouse erected on Point Atkinson
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, a headland in southwestern British Columbia named by Captain George Vancouver
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''. The first wooden lighthouse went into service in 1875 and was replaced by a reinforced concrete structure in 1914.
History
The first lighthouse at the site was a wooden structure with an attached keeper's house, built by Arthur Finney ofNanaimo
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in 1874. It did not go into service until the following year because initially the wrong light was sent from England. The beacon was lit for the first time 17 March 1875.
The light was above the sea and was visible for . When the visibility was poor, ship captains would sound their foghorn three times, prompting the lightkeeper to pump a horn by hand until the vessel signalled that it was safe to desist.Point Atkinson LighthouseLighthouse Friends In 1889, Canadian Pacific Steamships demanded that a fog alarm be added. This was located in a separate building to the west of the lighthouse. It had a rotating drum which was driven by steam to make an audible sound. In 1902, this was replaced by a diaphone fog alarm in which a slotted piston moved inside a similarly slotted cylinder.
The present lighthouse was built in 1914 on granite boulders jutting out into Burrard Inlet in West Vancouver, Canada. The concrete structure was considered at the time innovative in 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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design. It is now automated and still in use.
The Point Atkinson Lighthouse may be reached by hiking the Valley Trail in Lighthouse Park
Lighthouse Park is a neighbourhood park located in a residential area in West Vancouver, Canada. It is a popular tourist attraction for visitors to Vancouver as it is a National Historic Sites of Canada, National Historic Site of Canada. It is ...
.West Vancouver Museum and Archives
Keepers
*Edward Woodward 1874–1877 *Robert G. Wellwood 1877–1880 *Walter Erwin 1880–1910 *Thomas David Grafton 1910–1933 *Lawrence Walter Grafton 1933–1935 *Ernest Charles Dawe 1935–1961 *Gordon Odlum 1961–1976 *James Barr 1976–1978 *Oscar Edwards 1978–1980 *Gerald D. Watson 1980–1996 *Donald Graham 1980–1996See also
*List of lighthouses in British Columbia
This is a list of lighthouses in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
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See also
* List of lighthouses in Canada
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External links
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List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals''Canadian Coast Guard''. Retrieved 19 Marc ...
* List of lighthouses in Canada
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*Lighthouse Park
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* List of national historic sites of Canada
* Henri de Miffonis
*Brockton Point
Brockton Point is a headland off the Downtown Peninsula of Vancouver, on the north side of Coal Harbour. Named after Francis Brockton, it is the most easterly part of Stanley Park and is home to Brockton Point Lighthouse, a 100-year-old lighthouse ...
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