FHBRO # 90-115

LOL # 974

BUILT 1902

POSITION 45 56 54.5 N 62 45 04.9 W 002 degrees 19 minutes from the Front Range at the outer end of the ferry terminal at Wood Islands

LIGHT Fixed yellow light

FOCAL POINT 11.4 m (37.4 ft)

TOWER HEIGHT 9.7.m (32ft)

NOMINAL RANGE 9.6 km (6 miles)

The back range light, like the front range light, was modeled after the Bras d’Or, Nova Scotia, and Stribling, Ontario, lights on the recommendation of W. Anderson, Chief Engineer of Marine and Fisheries at the time. It was built by M. Walsh. It is a wooden tower clad in cedar shingles, painted white with red trim, with a red vertical stripe on the range line. Its most outstanding feature is the gallery’s wooden balustrade and supporting brackets. It is believed that the range light was moved about 1940 when construction of the ferry terminal at Wood Islands began.

Both range lights and the lighthouse are useful to the fishing fleet as well as other marine traffic, particularly the Northumberland Ferries Limited ships which cross daily from Caribou, Nova Scotia, to Wood Islands during the ice free months.