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Cape Bonavista Light was built between 1841 and 1843 on Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland, to mark the entrances to Bonavista and Trinity bays and guide northbound mariners toward Labrador. Operating from 1843 to 1962, it is Newfoundland’s fourth-oldest lighthouse. The two-story wooden structure surrounds a masonry tower and used two notable historic light systems from Scottish lighthouses, both installed by Robert Oke, the first Chief Inspector of the Newfoundland Lighthouse Service. After an electric beacon replaced it, the lighthouse was restored in the 1970s as a museum presenting pre-1870 lighthouse life and local maritime industries. A lightning-caused fire in 2001 narrowly spared this important navigational landmark.
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