Lighthouse Park | West Vancouver
Old-growth rainforest park with a historic 1912 lighthouse tower perched on a rocky point above the strait.
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This guide to Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver centers on keeper Walter Erwin, who arrived among the area's first settlers in 1880 and tended the fog horn and light for over two decades, logging some 1,450 hours sounding the alarm in a single year. It follows a fall from the tower ladder that crippled him, and the debt he sank into while pleading his case to Ottawa for help. Listen for how the old wooden tower gave way to the six-sided concrete lighthouse that still stands at the point.
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