With 14 lighthouses and range lights along its coast, Bruce County has one of the largest concentrations of these romantic, life-saving structures anywhere on the Great Lakes.  This is why we have created the Bruce Coast Lighthouse Tour!  You can see them all in a few days of touring the Bruce coast.  Lighthouses were extremely important back in the days when the lakes were our highways.  Along the Bruce coast, with its hidden shoals and cliff-bound shores, lighthouses offered beacons of hope in storms or foggy weather. 

The most southerly Bruce County lighthouse is at Point Clark on Lake Huron.  It is one of six imperial towers on the Great Lakes.  You’ll find two more of these stately, 24-metre stone towers on the Bruce County tour, at Chantry Island and Cove Island.  The tower on Chantry Island at Southampton is open to visitors. You can climb to the top of the tower and visit the lighthouse keeper’s house, restored by volunteers and furnished by the Bruce County Museum.Continue north to Tobermory to see the small light at the entrance to Big Tub Harbour, then down the Georgian Bay coast to lighthouses at Cabot Head, Cape Croker and Lion’s Head.

We suggest you include the Bruce County Museum at Southampton in your tour.  The museum has an excellent display on early coastal life on the Bruce. For an overview map and self-guided touring suggestions, visit our lighthouse specific website, http://www.brucecoastlighthouses.com/. The website includes details of each lighthouse, including accessibility, highlights, history and amenities.

When you get home, let us know – which was your favourite lighthouse, and why?

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Posted on: 15/06/10