Cove Island Light

Cove Island Light stands at Gig Point off the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, marking the narrow passage between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. In service since 30 October 1858, it was the first completed of the six stone Imperial Towers built as Great Lakes shipping and regional settlement expanded. Constructed by John Brown of Thorold with a limestone keeper’s dwelling, it retains its original second-order Fresnel lens made in Paris, the only Imperial Tower to do so. Staffed continuously from 1858 to 1991, it had Ontario’s longest keeper-occupied service and remains an active navigational aid operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.

Ontario · Canada