1906 Amphitrite Point Lighthouse

Amphitrite Point was named in 1859 after the naval warship H.M.S. Amphitrite by Captain George H. Richards of the Royal Navy, who surveyed much of Vancouver Island's coastline during that period. The original wooden lighthouse at Amphitrite Point was built in 1906 after the tragic shipwreck of the Pass of Melfort in 1905. Storm waves destroyed the lighthouse in 1914, and the current structure replaced it in 1915. On-site personnel maintained the lighthouse until 1988, when the Canadian Coast Guard began automating many of its lighthouses, and Amphitrite Point was among those selected for automation.