“The Act requires that all federal Ministers who administer lighthouses maintain and make accessible to the public during the two-year petitioning period (May 29, 2010 – May 29, 2012) a list of all lighthouses that are surplus to operational requirements.” From Parks Canada www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/lhn-nhs/pp-hl/page05.aspx

A list of “surplus” Ontario lighthouses can be found at the end of this item.

FROM HERITAGE CANADA’S PRESS RELEASE
The move (to declare more than 1,000 lighthouses surplus) undermines the intent of the new Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act (HLPA), leaving the door open to their abandonment and demolition by neglect.

The intent of the HLPA is “to conserve and protect heritage lighthouses”—legislation that elected officials, HCF, the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society, and other groups across Canada worked tirelessly to enact for over 10 years.

Passed into law in 2008 and only recently brought into force, the HLPA recognizes that lighthouses form “an integral part of Canada’s identity, culture and history” and that measures are needed to protect them for posterity. The Act establishes a process to: select and designate federally-owned heritage lighthouses; prevent their unauthorized alteration and disposal; require their maintenance by the federal government; and facilitate sales or transfers in order to ensure their continuing public purpose.

However the Act excludes lighthouses that are declared surplus from being designated unless a community group or private owner commits to acquire them and protect their heritage character. The impact of DFO now declaring all its lighthouses surplus effectively emasculates the HLPA and shifts the responsibility for their protection entirely onto local communities.

Lighthouse divesture was a component of the Act, but never the principle intent.

HCF calls on communities across Canada to petition for the heritage designation of lighthouses regardless of their “surplus” status, and urges the Minister of the Environment to ensure the full intent of the Act is adhered to.

Ontario Lighthouses declared Surplus by DFO
For more information see
www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/infocus-alaune/2010/02/index-eng.htm
www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/lhn-nhs/pp-hl/page05.aspx

Active (128)
Angus Island
Badgeley Island
Bar Point Pier D33
Battle Island
Brébeuf Island
Brébeuf Rear Range
Buck Island
Burlington Canal South Pier Outer
Bustard Rocks
Butternut Island Front Range
Butternut Island Rear Range
Byng Inlet Front Range
Byng Inlet Rear Range
Cape Croker
Caribou Island
Chantry Island
Christian Island
Collingwood Sector
Cove Island
Davieaux Island
DB-DC5
De Watteville Island Rear Range
Deep River Islet
DR-D80-F Bustard Rocks
DR-D81-F Bustard Rocks
False Ducks
George Island
Gereaux Island
Goderich North Breakwater
Goderich South Breakwater
Gore Bay
Great Duck Island
Griffith Island
Gros Cap Reefs
Gull Harbour
Hackett Reach Front Range
Hay Point Front Range
Hope Island
Ile Chretien Front Range
Ile Parisienne
Jones Island Front Range
Jones Island Rear Range
Kagawong
Killarney East
Killarney Northwest
Killbear Point
Lancaster Front Range D50
Lancaster Rear Range
Light D77
Lighthouse Island
Lighthouse Point (Big Tub Lighthouse)
Lighthouse Shoal
Limekiln Crossing Rear Range
Lion's Head Harbour
Livingstone Channel Upper Entrance
Lonely Island
Long Point
Main Duck Island
Manitowaning
McKay Island
McQuestin Point
Michipicoten Island
Mississagi Strait
Niagara River Front Range
Niagara River Rear Range
Nicholsons Point
Nine Mile Point
Nottawasaga Island
O'Donnell Point
Otter Island
Owen Sound Front Range
Passage Lower
Pelee Passage
Pigeon Island
Point Edward Front Range
Point Petre
Point Porphyry
Pointe Au Baril Front Range
Pointe Au Baril Rear Range
Pointe au Foin Upstream Front Range
Pointe aux Pins Front Range
Pointe Beaudette Front Range
Port Colborne Inner
Port Colborne Outer
Port Colborne Rear Range
Port Dalhousie
Port Dover West Pier Light
Port Stanley Breakwater
Port Weller Outer
Prescott Heritage Harbour
Richards Landing
Rondeau East Pier
Rondeau West Breakwater Front Range
Sailors Encampment Upbound Front Range
Sand Point
Saugeen River Front Range
Saugeen River Rear Range
Shaganash
Shoal Island
Slate Islands
Snug Harbour Rear Range
South Baymouth Front Range
South Baymouth Rear Range
South East Bay Sector Light
Southeast Shoal
St. Anicet East Front Range
St. Anicet East Rear Range
St. Anicet Shoal Light D27
St. Anicet West Front Range
St. Anicet West Rear Range
St. Catharines Marina Breakwater
St. Williams
Stokes Bay Front Range
Stokes Bay Rear Range
Strawberry Island
Stribling Point Upbound Front Range
Stribling Point Upbound Rear Range
Third Crab Sector
Three Mile Point
Thunder Bay Main
Trowbridge Island
Warren Landing Lower Front Range
Warren Landing Upper Front Range
West Sister Rock
Western Islands
Wilson Channel Front Range
Wilson Channel Rear Range
Wolfe Island

INACTIVE (45)
Lower Lakes Terminal
Crawford Wharf
Light D51
Iroquois 110
Light 111
Iroquois Lock
Spencer Island Pier
McNair Island 137
Banford Point - Wolfe Island
Alexandria Point
Wolfe Island South Side
Grog Island
Knapp Point
Burlington Canal South Pier Inner
Fort Mississauga
Point Abino
Port Stanley
Kingsville
Colchester Harbour
Pier X36
Pier X40
Stokes Point Wharf
Kettle Point
Iroquois Lock range rear
Whitby Harbour Rear Range
Burlington Canal Rear Range
Port Dalhousie Rear Range
Port Maitland Rear Range
Port Dover Rear Range
Port Burwell East Pier Range Front
Wheatley range rear
Thames River range rear
Corunna range front
Corunna range rear
Midland Point Range Front
Midland Point Range Rear
Bustard Rocks Rear Range
Port Stanley Sector
Harvey Narrows
DB-U28
DB-UV3 Whiteaves Island
Pike Creek Starboard Daybeacon
Port Hope Starboard Daybeacon
Port Hope West Range Rear
Campbell Island