a light to guide you safely home, an anchor to the past, a stoic and stalwart guardian

Make It

A guidebook and map on the lighthouses that dot Ontario’s coasts. Follow my footsteps as I visit each site, recounting the history of each, and consider the recommended tour paths to see them for yourself

Feature Lighthouses

  • Port Credit

    Its light can be seen for up to 20 km on Lake Ontario. It itself if now the tether. Instead of from the lake to the shore, it anchors us to the past of Port Credit. The lighthouse watches over the harbor, keeping safe those who use the waters now for fun and leisure instead of fishing and work.

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  • Gibraltar Lighthouse

    A haunted lighthouse at the edge of Toronto’s coast. Picture courtesy of Lighthouse Friends

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  • Nancy Island

    A replica of history can be history in itself. This lighthouse is a replica of something larger and named after a sunken schooner Nancy Island was built on. A small but mighty symbol of the importance of lighthouses

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