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1. How to Apply to Become a Lighthouse Keeper - updated 2010/06/02

2. How to Obtain an Up-to-Date Weather Report from a BC Lighthouse

3. Glossary of Terms and Definitions for Lighthouses

4. Lighthouse Keeper Database Homepage
- a Listing of Lighthouse Keepers from 1800s to Present

Please note, there are twenty-seven (27) manned lighthouses
on the British Columbia coast,
and not one is open for Bed & Breakfast (B&B).





TODAY - June 2, 2010 - The Canadian government is trying again to automate Canadian lighthouses. Drop in to the Canadian Lightkeepers Association webapge, to see how you can help stop this.




A very nice poster was printed somewhere back in the 1980s during another period when the government was attempting to automate Canadian lighthouses.

It is titled "The Watchers" and The text is particularly appropriate right now:

For more than a century they have kept watch. At first, for sailing ships on the BC coast. Today, mammoth cruise ships and container vessels pass their light; small kayaks are towed ashore; hikers drop by for warm tea. They are the 30 remaining lightkeepers on our coast. For now, they still watch.

Following this text is a list of the thirty lighthouse keepers and the stations they manned at the time. Unfortunately, some of the keepers are no longer with us.
If the government has its way, the lighthouses will be gone also.

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Lighthouse Poster



Note: As you read through the stories, click on the highlighted name of a lighthouse
and it will take you to a map of automated and manned BC lighthouses and show you the location.

Clicking on a red star will take you to a footnote or supply additional text information.

If you have Google Earth running on your computer, just click on any of the Google Earth icons
next to the name to locate the town or lighthouse.

Here is a downloadable KMZ file for Google Earth listing ALL manned and unmanned lighthouses on the BC Coast.

And finally I would like to thank my son for all his help and the use of his server
without which none of this would have been possible.


If you have something to contribute,
wish to correct something,
or just comment, please email me.



                                            John Coldwell (retired BC lighthouse keeper)
Galvanistrasse 8
A-4040 Linz, Austria
Tel: +43 732 253117


All contents copyright © 2005 - 2010 by John A. Coldwell
No story, photograph, or any other item on this website
may be reprinted or reproduced without the express permission
of the author. For contact see email address above.


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