LIGHTHOUSES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA:

Lighthouse Books
Listed below are the best books about Canadian lighthouses that we've found.

  Look for these books at 
your favourite bookseller
 or public library.

 
BRITISH COLUMBIA    
  • 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
     
NOVA SCOTIA    
  • 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)    
  • 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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