MAD CAPE LIGHTHOUSE

A lighthouse on Cape Rabid! The idea took shape in 1838. In competition with the Apple River site in Nova Scotia, it would be a petition from local residents and captains of vessels who would have decided that the commission would instead choose that arm moving in the Bay of Fundy to prevent the sailors taking this dangerous passage. A busy commercial road passed through Cape Rabid. The water was deeper and free of ice in winter. That was not the case on the coast of Nova Scotia. Two years later, Cape Raging's lighthouse will be built on the island of Barn Marsh Island connected to the mainland by the beach, the Marsh Marsh Creek, at the top of a cliff of 46 meters. A wooden tower, covered with white painted shingles, topped with a hexagonal lamp fed at the time of whale oil or porpoises. In 1870, a new lighthouse whose light beam was visible at a distance of 24 kilometres will be put into service. It will not avoid the numerous shipwrecks in these stormy waters that have made this cape raging. Today the lighthouse is still working and resonate its fog horn in the Bay of Fundy. The home of the lighthouse guard houses a restaurant and a shop-shop where local crafts are exposed.