Cape Scott Lighthouse

Cape Scott Lighthouse stands at the remote northwestern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, where it continues to serve the Pacific coast under the Canadian Coast Guard as one of the province’s few non-automated lighthouses. Informal lighting by a nearby Danish-Canadian settlement preceded the first official aid, an unwatched acetylene gas light installed in 1927. During the Second World War, the site became a Royal Canadian Air Force radar station, and that wartime infrastructure later supported the present light station. A tower rose on the former radar foundation in 1959, a new one followed in 1981, and by 2019 solar panels had replaced diesel generators. Its history is also defined by the keepers who maintained it in isolation.