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The history of lighthouses in Canada dates back to 1734. == The 18th century == The first lighthouse in what was to become Canada, (the second on the entire coast of North America after Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbour which was built in 1713),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Louisbourg's French Lighthouse 1734 - 1758 )〕 went into service at the French fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island in 1734. Louisbourg Lighthouse is one of the most famous light houses in Canada. Patterned after the :fr:Phare des Baleines built off La Rochelle in 1682, the Louisbourg Light was destroyed by British troops during the siege of 1758, and not rebuilt until 1842; the rubble of the original tower is still visible at the base of the current lighthouse, which dates from 1923. Next came the Sambro Island Light in 1760. Located at the entrance to Halifax harbor, it has been upgraded over the years but remains the oldest continuously operating lighthouse in North America, predating New Jersey's Sandy Hook Light by 4 years, and such venerable lighthouses as Virginia's Cape Henry Light, Maine's photogenic Portland Head Light, and Long Island's Montauk Point Light by three decades. Another early lighthouse in the Maritime provinces, at Cape Roseway 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Cape Roseway Lighthouse - Early history )〕 dates from 1788 when Shelburne was booming as the largest settlement of United Empire Loyalists on the continent. The octagonal masonry tower on McNutts Island, Nova Scotia was braced with wooden timbers and had a clapboard exterior, and unfortunately was damaged beyond repair by fire after being hit by lightning in 1959. In 1791 the first lighthouse was built at the entrance to Saint John on Partridge Island, New Brunswick. Six years earlier, the first immigration quarantine station in Canada had been established there. The other major quarantine station, at Grosse Ile, Quebec, was built as a hasty response to the cholera epidemic of 1832. In that same year, the original lighthouse at Partridge Island was destroyed by fire. In 1859 the second lighthouse was equipped with the first steam-powered fog whistle, an invention of Robert Foulis. The third Partridge Island lighthouse was operational from 1880 until it was replaced by a concrete octagonal tower in 1959. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of lighthouses in Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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