Lighthouse # 009, Tobermory, Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada, 2023

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Lighthouse # 009, Tobermory, Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada, 2023Height 41 feet (12. 5 meters) Geographic position 4515'28. 8"N 8140'24. 2"W Elevation on earth 177 m. (581 ft) The town of Tobermory, situated at the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada, owes its early success to Charles Earl, one of its first permanent settlers. As shipping into the natural harbor developed due to fishing and logging, Earl hung a lantern on a tree branch at night to guide vessels through the dangerous passageways

built in 1876

8"N 81°40'24

The lighthouse was constructed by Scottish stonemason Adam MacVicar after Thomas Mercer Jones of the Canada Company sold the land to Queen Victoria

Following the devastating "Big Blow" storm of 1913

Raymond Caron (1956)

The first light was a lantern hoisted atop a mast that was placed on a crib built fifty feet from the outer end of the breakwater pier on the north side of the river

but a replica was built in 1983 by students and was later used to replace the metal pole

From the Portraits series / \

With a height of 6

stretches between Lake Ontario and Rice Lake

5"N 79°35'57

and ownership was transferred to Norfolk County to preserve the iconic structure

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