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THE IMPORTANCE of our
lighthouses up and down the
coast cannot be understated. At
a time when there is talk about
automating them I have decid-
ed to illustrate one that most
Lower Mainland residents will
recognize — the Point
Atkinson Lighthouse.

RORTH SHORE
HERITAGE
By Dorathy Foster

it will be declared a National
Historic Site at an official dedica-
tion ceremony on Sept. 18. There
will be officials from Ottawa,
_ interested MPs and many local
Tepresentatives present.

The Point Atkinson Lighthouse
stands on a prominent outcropping
on the point that Spanish explorer
José Narvaez sighted in 1791. The
site was named Point Atkinson by

_ Capt. Vancouver on June 14, 1792,
and the first lighthouse was built
here in 1874,

The wall of the original tower,
still stands near the present tower,
which was designed by Colonel
Anderson and built between 1911
and 1912.

Anderson, a colorful figure of
the time, was responsible for pro-
moting the instalation of a number
of lighthouses along the coast.

* Some interesting information,
on a plaque overlooking the light-

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THE POINT Atkinson Lighthouse at Lighthouse Park in West
Vancouver was built in 1911-1912,

house where [ sketched it, says the
tower is 60 feet high, the light is

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LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER Jerry Watson keeps a watchful eye an
the waterways off Point Atkinson.

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108 feet above high water, the
light beam is a 500 watt bulb, and
the foghor range is 10 miles.

This plaque was mounted on a
large rock at this lookout in 1967
with R. Edwin Woodward present,
the grandson of Edwin Woodward,
the first keeper.

Listed at the end of the plaque
are the names of men who have
been responsible for providing reli-
able ‘round-the-clock weather
reports, and saving Jives in an area
where only they could see boats
and people in distress, something
that automation can never do.

For anyone interested in further
information on Point Atkinson
Lighthouse, read West Vancouver

resident Don Graham's Keepers of

the Light, a recipient of a Haig-
Brown award for the best B.C.
book of non-fiction or his second
book on other lighthouses, Lights
of the Inside Passage.

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