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Managing Organization:
Canadian Coast Guard
Notes:
This lighthouse was one of six limestone towers built in the Georgian Bay in the late 1850s, collectively known as the Imperial Towers. Nottawasaga Island is a bird sanctuary where an estimated 1,500 herring gulls nest along with great blue herons, great egrets, black crowned night herons, and double crested cormorants.
Tower Height: 80
Height of Focal Plane: 86
Description of Tower: Conical limestone tower.
Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.
This light is operational
Date Established: 1858
Date Present Tower Built: 1858
Date Automated: 1959
Optics: 1858: Second order Fresnel lens.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
Accessible by boat only.
Keepers: George Collins (1859-1890), A. G. Clark (1890-1902), Fred Burmister (1902-1912), James McNabb (1912-1913), Anne McNabb (1913-1914), Thomas W. Bowie (1915-1924), Margaret Bowie (1924), Thomas E. Foley (1924-1932), Samuel Neally Hillen (1932-1942), William "Scotty" Hogg (1942-1952), James A. Keith (1952-1956), James F. Dineen (1957-1959), Ross White (1959-1961), Harry Ward (1961-1963), Wilfred Neil Johnston (1963-1983)
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