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The Lake Light

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2004

Photo Source - Wikimedia

Attached to this lighthouse on Toronto Island, about 2 km west of the Centre Island ferry dock, is this Ontario Heritage Trust plaque. Here's what it says:

Coordinates: 43.61367 -79.38531

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This lighthouse, one of the earliest on the Great Lakes, was completed in 1808 as an hexagonal tower 16 m high, topped by a wooden cage with a fixed whale-oil lantern. In 1832 it was raised to 25 m and later equipped with a revolving light. The mysterious disappearance of its first keeper, J.P. Rademuller, in 1815 and the subsequent discovery nearby of part of a human skeleton enhanced its reputation as a haunted building.

Another plaque at this location
Gibraltar Point Lighthouse

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Allan A. Lamport Regatta Course
Babe Ruth at Hanlan's Point
English's Boathouse
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Gibraltar Point Lighthouse
Island Filtration Plant
Island Water Treatment Plant
Manitou Road
Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen
Ned Hanlan 1855-1908
Queen City Yacht Club
Residents or Parks? Remaking Toronto Island
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake
Toronto Island

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> Posted June 22, 2011
[Reply to Jim Miller, below] If your painting depicts Niagara Falls, it can't be the Gibraltar Pt. light in Toronto. I presume your light is above the Falls(?). You may want to contact the Niagara Falls History Museum (formerly at Lundy's Lane), or Riverbrink Art Museum in Queenston. -Wayne

> Posted June 20, 2011
Hello, I just acquired an oil painting. It is a picture of the horseshoe falls at evening with the moon and clouds including an old round light house or beacon light jutting out from land with a walk bridge to it. It seems to be a wooden round top structure on it with a pole sticking in the middle. No outbuildings are noted. This is a real old painting. I haven't restored it yet. It is real dirty and has a few holes and paint loss on it and is not signed. I was wondering if this is the light house at Gibraltar Point that's featured?
Jim Miller

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