Cape D'Or Lighthouse
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
Cape D'Or Lighthouse
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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The present lighthouse, consisting of a one-story fog signal building with a light tower rising from one corner, was built in 1965. After automation in 1989, the two nearby keeper’s dwellings, completed in 1959, sat vacant until being leased in 1995 and converted into a tearoom and hostel.
Cape d'Or is a headland located near Advocate, Nova Scotia on the Bay of Fundy coast of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The cape marks the north point of the entrance to the Minas Basin.
The towering umber colored cliffs of Cape d’Or extend out into the Bay of Fundy, west of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. It is said that explorer Samuel de Champlain named this point Cap d’Or (Arm of Gold) in the 1600s because of the golden color of the copper shining in the cliffs. For the Mi’kmaq, it was the veins of hard and dense rock found in these basalt cliffs, as well as the copper, that had great value.
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July 4th, 2019
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