Designated Heritage Lighthouses

Name: Inch Arran Point Front Range (built in 1870)
Location: Dalhousie, New Brunswick

Overlooking Chaleur Bay in New Brunswick, the Inch Arran Point Front Range Lighthouse is a very good example of Canada’s post-Confederation expansion of the lighthouse system and is one of many surviving wooden square-tapered tower lighthouses constructed after 1867. The 11 metre high wooden tower is distinguished by its birdcage-style lantern gallery, a unique feature among existing lighthouses in Canada. The lighthouse played an important role in the development of Dalhousie, a town that has historically relied on the sea to connect it to the rest of Canada.

Situated on the northernmost point of the province in the town of Dalhousie, the Inch Arran Point Front Range Lighthouse marks the entrance to Dalhousie Harbour at the mouth of the Restigouche River, and is about a one hour’s drive from Bathurst, New Brunswick.

Name: Long Eddy Point Lighthouse (built in 1966)
Location: Grand Manan, New Brunswick

Situated at the northern tip of Grand Manan Island, the Long Eddy Point Lighthouse is a combined tower and fog alarm building. The lighthouse stands at 9.3 metres in height, and consists of a square, reinforced-concrete tower, built in the corner of a square concrete-block fog alarm building. Known locally as “The Whistle”, the lighthouse grounds are a rare surviving example of an aid to navigation station that was initially established to provide only an audible signal, necessitated at this location by the stormy weather of the Bay of Fundy and the thick fog that caused a significant number of shipwrecks around Grand Manan Island.

Highly valued by community members and tourists alike for its scenic views, Long Eddy Point Lighthouse is also a popular whale and bird-watching site. It can be reached by ferry, from Saint John, New Brunswick, in approximately three hours.

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