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surplus lighthouses

Parks Canada won't preserve historic N.S. lighthouses

Posted Mon, 2010-06-21 21:01
Date Published: 
2010-06-18
Source: 
CBC News - Halifax

Parks Canada says it's not interested in running two lighthouses in Nova Scotia that have been declared surplus even though they sit on national historic sites.

The lighthouse in Louisbourg and one on Georges Island in Halifax Harbour were both among nearly 1,000 lighthouses declared surplus in May.

Larry Ostola, director general of historic sites for Parks Canada, said the agency already manages 14 lighthouses across Canada, including five that are designated national historic sites.

18 BC lighthouses on chopping block.

Posted Tue, 2010-06-15 11:17
Date Published: 
2010-06-15
Source: 
Alice Woods, DFO, Globe&Mail

Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea wants to sell off 18 active BC lighthouses. They include Pt Atkinson in West Vancouver, Prospect Point in Stanley Park, Discovery Island south of Victoria, and Sand Heads at the entrance to the Fraser River off Steveston.

Future of Quebec lighthouses questioned

Posted Tue, 2010-06-15 10:22
Date Published: 
2010-06-14
Source: 
Radio Canada, Montreal

Heritage activists are expressing concern about the fate of Quebec's lighthouses after 164 were declared surplus property by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

The lighthouses, 86 active and 78 inactive, were declared surplus on May 29, when the new Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act came into force.

It is now up to individuals, municipalities and community-based non-profit groups to try to take over the surplus lighthouses, the department said. Interested parties have two years to come up with a plan.

Will the Light Go Out at Race Rocks, off Victoria

Posted Thu, 2010-06-10 10:18
Date Published: 
2010-06-10
Source: 
jack Knox, Victoria Times-Colonist

Here's irony for you: After spending most of 2009 fixing up the 150-year-old Race Rocks lighthouse tower so that it doesn't fall over, Ottawa has decided it doesn't want it anymore.

Or maybe -- probably -- that's an oversimplification. Heaven knows confusion shrouds the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' sudden designation of 976 unstaffed light stations and lighthouses as surplus to needs.

Retired senator Pat Carney says DFO appears to be using a new heritage-lighthouse law -- one that she spent 10 years pushing through Parliament -- to dump unwanted properties.

Plug could be pulled on 1,000 Canadian lighthouses

Posted Thu, 2010-06-10 09:57
Date Published: 
2010-06-10
Source: 
Justine Hunter, Globe & Mail

Victoria — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Jun. 08, 2010 10:12PM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Jun. 09, 2010 3:03PM EDT

Close to 1,000 Canadian lighthouses have been declared surplus and could be up on the auction block under a new law.

The list, including 480 active lighthouses, was released in the middle of a Senate review launched last fall in response to a fierce battle over plans to automate some of the last 50 lighthouses in Canada that are still staffed.