Seacow Head Light Explained

Seacow Head Light
Location:	Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Coordinates:	46.3157°N -63.8101°W
Yearbuilt:	1864
Construction:	wooden tower
Shape:	octagonal tower with balcony and lantern
Marking:	white tower, red lacony and lantern
Height:	18.3m (60feet)
Focalheight:	27m (89feet)
Characteristic:	Fl (3) W 12s.
Managingagent:	Canadian Coast Guard
Module:	Embed: yes Designation1: Prince Edward Island Designation1 Type: Designated Heritage Place Designation1 Date: 2012-10-03 Designation1 Number: 7716^[1]

The Seacow Head Light is a lighthouse on the south-central coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada, west of Central Bedeque. It was built in 1864.^[2] The lighthouse was relocated in 1979 to avoid erosion. The lighthouse appeared in several episodes of the television series Road to Avonlea and was home to one of the series' main characters, Gus Pike.^[3]

The name "Seacow Head" was given in reference to the walrus, formerly abundant in nearby waters, and is not connected with Steller's Sea Cow or other Sirenia.^{[4] [5]}

Keepers

• Malcolm MacFarlane 1865 – 1867
• Thomas P. Huestis 1867 – 1872
• James Wright 1872 – 1873
• Peter O’Ronaghan (Ranahan) 1873 – 1917
• E. O’Ronaghan 1917 – 1919
• Thomas J. Ranahan 1919 – 1946
• Walter Richards 1946 - 1959
• William Sherry 1959 - 1967^[6]

See also

• List of lighthouses in Prince Edward Island
• List of lighthouses in Canada

External links

• Picture of Seacow Head Light Lighthouse Friends
• Aids to Navigation Canadian Coast Guard

Notes and References

1. Web site: Seacow Head Lighthouse. Prince Edward Island Register of Historic Places. 10 November 2014.
2. August 7, 2009.
3. http://auntyjanet.freeservers.com/avonlea.html Road to Avonlea Filming Sites
4. Book: Place-names of Prince Edward Island with meanings . Canadian Board on Geographical Names . Geographical Names Board of Canada . 1925 . F.A. Acland . 48 . 2011-10-03.
5. Book: Gesner, Abraham . Report of the Geological Survey of Prince Edward Island . Abraham Pineo Gesner . 1847 . Sea-cows or Walrus were formerly numerous on this part of the shore, but they have long since disappeared. .
6. Web site: Lighthouse Society . 2015-10-20 . 2016-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160116073241/http://peilighthousesociety.ca/lighthouse.php?id=44 . dead .