File:Peggys Point Lighthouse (1).jpg
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Peggy's Point Lighthouse While no doubt the most well known lighthouse in Canada and one of the most photographed lighthouses in the world, the history of the light at Peggy's Cove is little known. Various versions account for the name. Peggy is the nickname for Margaret and the community may have acquired the name from nearby Saint Margaret's Bay, especially as the point marks the eastern entrance to the bay. Other accounts suggest Peggy was an early settler. A popular romantic version says a woman named Peggy was the only survivor of a shipwreck and there are even American families that even claim descent from the shipwrecked Peggy. In any case, it was decided to erect a light to mark the eastern entrance to St. Margaret's Bay in 1868. While best known as "the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse", it was and remains, officially know as the Peggy's Point Lighthouse as its purpose is to mark the point, not the cove. The cove has its own small light on the government wharf. The first lighthouse was a wooden tower, built atop a keeper's dwelling at the point. It was a red light and used a catoptric reflector (a round silver-plated mirror) to magnify the kerosene oil lamp. The wooden tower, built atop a keeper's dwelling was replaced by the present tower in 1915, a pleasing and stout concrete octagon 50 feet west of the original light. The keeper's dwelling remained for many years nearby as did a tall flagpole displaying coded black cones and balls to warn of bad weather approaching. The new lighthouse showed a white light from a dioptric lens, a series of glass prisms, to magnify the light. Several colour and character changes followed, the most recent being the change from white to green in 1979 and red in 2009. Another very visible change (which helps date earlier colour photos) was in 1969 when the iron lantern on top of the tower was changed from white paint to red paint. |
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DGJ_4579 - Peggy's Point Lighthouse
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Author | Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada |
Camera location | 44° 29′ 29.01″ N, 63° 55′ 10.15″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 44.491393; -63.919486 |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Camera model | NIKON D300 |
Author | DENNIS G. JARVIS |
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F-number | f/11 |
ISO speed rating | 200 |
Date and time of data generation | 12:20, 21 January 2010 |
Lens focal length | 29 mm |
User comments | dgjarvis@eastlink.ca |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 17:14, 21 January 2010 |
Y and C positioning | Co-sited |
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Date and time of digitizing | 12:20, 21 January 2010 |
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Focal length in 35 mm film | 43 mm |
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Date metadata was last modified | 13:14, 21 January 2010 |
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