page_title: Point Amour Lighthouse
section_title: External links
hierarchical_section_title: Point Amour Lighthouse / External links
caption_attribution_description: English: Lighttower, Labrador. Marconi station foundation.
context_page_description: The Point Amour Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Point Amour in southern Labrador, Canada. It is not far from L'Anse Amour, and was completed in 1857. It is the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada, and the second tallest one in all of Canada, reaching a height of 109 feet.
  The Point Amour Lighthouse was part of a series of four lighthouses built in the 1850s to allow for safer passage for the increased steamship travel between Europe and the new world at that time. The cylindrical tower is built of limestone and is painted white with a black band. The limestone used for construction of the lighthouse was obtained from local quarries. Other materials such as timber and brick were not as accessible and were shipped from Quebec to L’Anse au Loup. From L’Anse au Loup they were brought to the sight where the lighthouse was constructed, four miles away. It was built in the series of Imperial Towers and is designated a Provincial Historic Site. The residential part of the lighthouse, completed in 1857, has been renovated and now serves as a museum. The site was also home to a Marconi Station, of which only the foundations survive.
context_section_description: Aids to Navigation Canadian Coast Guard
  Point Amour Lighthouse website
  Point Amour Lighthouse at Lorne's Lighthouses
caption: Foundations of the old Marconi Station
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