Port Bickerton Lighthouse

The Third Port Bickerton Lighthouse c. 2000The current light tower is a square white concrete building.© Courtesy the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Interpretive Centre

The Second and Third Port Bickerton LighthousesIn the foreground is the reconstructed second light which is now a lighthouse interpretive centre. The current operational lighthouse is in the background.Bickerton was settled in 1840 by a group of fishermen from Peggy's Cove. Although Bickerton Island was settled first, the area surrounding the lighthouse was settled soon afterwards.It was not until 1901 that the first of three lighthouses was constructed in Port Bickerton. Emery Taylor of Stillwater, N.S. was contracted to build the lighthouse with a bid of only five hundred dollars. The lighthouse was completed in January of 1901, but it was not operational until October 10th of the same year. The lighthouse was a small harbour light, housed in a square, wooden tower, painted white with sloping sides. The western region of Barachois Head was home to this first lighthouse. It was erected one hundred feet from the shore, on a site twenty-five feet above the high tide line In clear weather it was visible for seven miles.