Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan

The white wooden lighthouse high on the northern tip of Grand Manan has greeted visitors into North Head Harbor since 1860. 150 years later, it now serves as an example of how a community can rally around a local lighthouse and save it and its history for future generations.

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The January 1857 shipwreck of the 1,009 ton Lord Ashburton as it rounded the northern headland of Grand Manan en route from France to Saint John, New Brunswick resulted in the death of 21 men. A few months later a resolution was entered in New Brunswick’s House of Assembly to erect a lighthouse on “the Northern Head of Grand Manan”.

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Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan