FHBRO # Not applicable

LOL # Not applicable. Decommissioned

BUILT Station Established 1856. Built 1876

POSITION Formerly located on Fish Island (now called Bill Hook Island) near the entrance to Malpeque Harbour. Now located in Cabot Provincial Park, north of Kensington

LIGHT Not applicable

FOCAL POINT Not applicable

TOWER HEIGHT 14 m (46 ft)

NOMINAL RANGE Not applicable

When this lighthouse was built shortly after Confederation it had an attached 1½ storey dwelling with storage shed, typical of the new 2nd generation lighthouses. In the early 1900’s it had a metal railing around the gallery. It was plainly built with little ornamentation. It had to be moved three times because of the shifting sands. The lighthouse was torn down and replaced sometime after 1913.

When the second lighthouse was built it was set well-back from the water’s edge, but by the late 1980’s the sandy island had eroded so badly that the lighthouse had to be moved. The Department of Transport had made plans to burn the lighthouse as it was surplus to their needs; a steel tower and electric light had taken over the job of the lighthouse.

Local people, however, did not want to lose their lighthouse, which had guided boats safely into the waters of Malpeque Bay for many years. They came up with a plan to involve the Search and Rescue crew of Squadron 413, at nearby CFB Summerside, and have them rescue the little lighthouse. Bill Auld, then president of the Malpeque Historical Society, and fisherman Keith Davidson, sawed the lighthouse in two horizontally. Lester Davidson removed the bolts fastening the building to its base. The lighthouse was then lifted in two parts by a helicopter, and relocated to nearby Cabot Park.

Necessary repairs were made and it now sits in the park overlooking the beach at Cabot Park.