Queen's Wharf Lighthouse

Queen's Wharf Lighthouse, now on Fleet Street at Exhibition Place in Toronto, is a small wooden octagonal tower built in 1861 as one of a pair of harbour lights at Queen's Wharf. Designed by Kivas Tully, it displayed a red light that worked with a larger white-light tower to guide ships through the shallow, hazardous entrance to Toronto Harbour. Harbour changes gradually made the lights obsolete, and both were deactivated in 1912. As landfill pushed the shoreline outward, this surviving tower was moved to Fleet Street in 1929. No longer operating, it remains a rare survivor of Toronto's early waterfront and a protected heritage site.

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