Lighthouse Books
Listed below are the best books
about Canadian lighthouses that we've found.
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these books at
your favourite bookseller
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- Guiding Lights
BC's Lighthouses & Their Keepers
by Chris Jaksa & Lynn Tanod
Jam-packed with full-colour photographs and
firsthand accounts from lightkeepers.
1998, Harbour Publishing, 112 pages
Hardcover, 26 x 22 cm.. ISBN 1-55017-186-0.
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- Keepers of the Light
A History of British Columbia's Lighthouses and
their Keepers
by Donald
Graham, former lightkeeper at Point
Atkinson Lightstation
1985, Harbour Publishing, 270 pages
Paperback, 24 x 16 cm. ISBN 1-55017-024-4.
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- Lights of the Inside Passage
A History of British Columbia's Lighthouses and
their Keepers
by Donald
Graham, former lightkeeper at Point
Atkinson Lightstation
1986, Harbour Publishing, 269 pages
Paperback, 24 x 16 cm. ISBN 1-55017-060-0.
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- Lighthouse Chronicles
Twenty Years on the B.C. Lights
by Flo Anderson, lightkeeper's wife 1961 to 1982
1998, Harbour Publishing, 222 pages
Paperback, 23 x 15 cm. ISBN 1-55017-181-X
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- The History of Pilot Bay Lighthouse
On Kootenay Lake
by Susan Hulland
1997, Friends of West Kootenay Parks, 48 pages
Paperback, 23 x 15 cm. ISBN 0-9682083-0-4
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- Vanishing Lights
A Lightkeeper's Fascination with a Disappearing
Way of Life
by Chris Mills,
former lightkeeper on the east and west coasts of
Canada
1992, Lancelot Press, 168 pages
Paperback, 20 x 14 cm. ISBN 0-88999-487-0
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- We Keep a Light
by Evelyn M. Richardson
1995 (first published in 1945), Nimbus
Publishing, 260 pages
Paperback, 20 x13 cm. ISBN 1-55109-114-3
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| CHILDREN'S BOOKS
(Not necessarily Canadian, but good anyway) |
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- Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
by Peter and Connie Roop
1985, Carolrhoda Books, 40 pages
Paperback. 22 x 15 cm. ISBN 0-87614-454-7
The true story of Abbie Burgess, who kept the
lighthouse lamps lit for 4 weeks during a
tremendous winter storm off the coast of Maine in
1856.
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