What's New

   

    Photo of inner lighthouse, with outer lighthouse in the background.

    Outer lighthouse on west breakwater.

    Inner lighthouse on west breakwater

    The west pier and breakwall with main lighthouse on the end

    Article from The Tribune, September 8th, 1971, which talks about the complains of the new automatic foghorn installed.

    Article from the Port Colborne Times, November 28, 1907, about the completed steel frame construction of the new east side lighthouse.

    Photo of the Inner Lighthouse in 2014.

    Photo of Outer Lighthouse after its recent construction on the new south-west breakwater.

    Excerpt from the Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada: volume 7, 1891, about the new main lighthouse built in 1890.

    Excerpt from a Report by W. H. Smith Deputy Minister of Marine a Fisheries, 1 Jan 1878, Sessional Papers, 1878, which described the previous lighthouses as being unsafe and reporting that new lightho

    Excerpt from the Appendix to the tenth volume of the journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 1851, regarding the new lighthouse at Port Colborne which was erected and operatio

    Article from the Cincinnati Weekly Herald and Philanthropist, 30 Oct 1844 about the gale which destroyed Gravelly Bay's pier and lighthouse.

    Excerpt from the Appendix to Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, 1839, regarding damage to the Port Colborne pier and lighthouse from a recent gale.

    Excerpt from Report of the Engineer appointed to examine the works upon the Welland Canal, 1835, which described the Gravelly Bay lighthouse requiring temporary repair from gale.

    Excerpt from the Appendix to Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada re: Thomas Merritt and Thomas McChesney being responsible for erecting a pier and lighthouse, respectively, at Gravelly B

    Inner lighthouse on west breakwater with gathering of people standing and docking boats on breakwater.

    Photo of the Inner Lighthouse with the advanced living quarters.

    The west breakwater with the inner and outer lighthouses, soon after the addition of the southwest extension and outer lighthouse

    West breakwater, main lighthouse, and construction of new extension