Lighthouse Protection Campaign Launched Lighthouse supporters gathered on March 11 at the Chebucto Lightstation outside Halifax to launch their national campaign for a protection act. Learn what happened with the text of the Press Conference 2. The Lighthouse Protection Act has formed a team, working with other heritage groups, to draft legislation based on its statement of principles. Every senator and MP in Canada is being approached about the Lighthouse Protection Act by volunteers from across Canada. You can help too.
Lighthouses are icons of maritime history in Canada.
They are often the sole remaining federal presence in communities on the east and west coasts, and on the Great Lakes. Today, Canada has 583 surviving lighthouses. In the first decade of the 20th century, Canada had more than 800 staffed lighthouses, beacons and fog horns. Today there are 52 lighthouses with resident keepers. Large scale automation, cuts to the Canadian Coast Guard and subsequent downgrading of traditional aids to navigation means that existing lightstations receive minimal maintenance.