The nation of Canada was created by the British North America Act in 1867 with Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as the four original provinces. Today Canada is a federation of ten provinces and three large federal territories in the far north of the country. The province of Manitoba, located west of Ontario, was created in 1870 from land ceded to Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company in the previous year. It attained its present borders with transfers of land from the Northwest Territories in 1881 and 1912. Since 1912 it extends northward from the U.S. border to latitude 60° North and the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay. Winnipeg is the capital and largest city in the province. Located far from the ocean, Manitoba may seem at first to be an unlikely location for lighthouses. Nonetheless, Manitoba once had about a dozen lighthouses built on Lake Winnipeg and other navigable lakes and rivers in the southern part of the province. Six of these lighthouses remain active today, and fortunately three of the others have been preserved. Manitoba also has a northern salt-water coastline on Hudson Bay, and there are several skeletal lighthouses on that coast. Aids to navigation in Canada are maintained by the Canadian Coast Guard. In 2008 Parliament passed the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act to designate and protect historic lighthouses. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. CCG numbers are from the Inland Waters volume of the List of Lights, Buoys, and Fog Signals of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. For Hudson Bay lights, Admiralty numbers are from Volume H of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals, and U.S. NGA numbers are from Publication 110.
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![]() Warren Landing Upper Range Lights, Warren Landing Canadian Coast Guard photo courtesy of Ron Walker |
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Posted December 17, 2003. Checked and revised October 9, 2024. Lighthouses: 25. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.