Lighthouse facts
Published Monday July 28th, 2008
Telegraph Journal – C 6
The history of the Green's Point Lighthouse:
1867 - The natural causeway was removed to make Green's Point an island.
1879 - The steam-powered fog horn and old house were built.
1880 - Captain Helms becomes the first lightkeeper.
1897 - Sidney Dines becomes the second lightkeeper.
1903 - The lighthouse is built by C.L. McKeen of St. Andrews.
1907 - A wooden causeway was constructed to connect Green's Point to the
mainland.
1918-19 - The kerosene- and diesel-powered compressed-air foghorn and second
fog-alarm building are built.
1935 - Russell Matthews takes over as lightkeeper.
1936 - Prescott Dines becomes lightkeeper.
1952 - Green's Point gets electricity, an electric fog alarm motor and a well is
dug.
1963 - Dines retires and hands the job over to Kitchener Randall.
1964 - The two new houses are finished and the old two-story house is
demolished.
1978 - The wooden causeway is destroyed and a new one is built out of rock.
1979 - The lower house is sold and transported to Back Bay.
1981 - Veda Randall becomes lightkeeper for six months.
1982 - Richard Mullin of Grand Manan becomes the lightkeeper, stairs are built,
and a computer building is constructed.
1983 - The radio tower is built.
1986 - Ralph Eldridge becomes the seventh and last lightkeeper.
©Charlene Beney 2009