Cape Enrage

Cape Enrage

, as a result of a concentrated effort by local students to renovate the property and run it as a summer project. In 2004, Frommer's travel guide listed it as the 'Best View in Canada.'

History

Acadian sailers make early mention 'Cap Enragé,' and after the Acadian expulsion, British settlers anglicised the name to Cape Enrage. During the 1840s, Cape Enrage won a contested debate as the location of the first lighthouse in Chignecto Bay, and the lighthouse was erected in 1847. A variety of boathouses and temporary lighthouse keeper's houses were built over the next decades, but were frequently damaged or destroyed in the region's numerous storms and harsh winters. The lighthouse itself was heavily damaged in one storm in the 1840s, and was extensively repaired. The current lighthouse keeper's house dates from 1952.

The lighthouse was automated in the late 1980s by the Canadian Coast Guard, and the last lighthouse keeper, Noel Justison, left the property in 1988. The property quickly began to suffer from neglect and vandalism, and by 1993 all of the buildings except the lighthouse were scheduled for demolition by the government. However, in 1993 a small group of high school students from Moncton, under the supervision of Dennison Tate, their physics teacher, began a restoration project at the site, renovating all of the buildings and slowly turning the site into a tourist destination. Today Cape Enrage Interpretive Centre, a not-for-profit, student-run organisation, maintains the property, and the students also offer climbing, rappelling, and kayaking in the summer months. In the summer of 2004, the Canadian Coast Guard formally transferred ownership of the lighthouse to Cape Enrage Adventures, Inc., the company responsible, in tandem with the Cape Enrage Interpretive Centre, for the maintenance and continued operation of the site.

External links

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=47.425,-84.483889&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=45.610795,-64.777794&spn=0.082496,0.21698&t=h&iwloc=addr aerial view]
* [http://www.capenrage.com Official website]
* [http://www.deborahcarr.ca/sample11.htm Article profiling Dennison Tate, the director of Cape Enrage Interpretive Centre]
* [http://www.frommers.com/destinations/canada/0216020117.html Article on 'The Best View in Canada"]
* [http://www.nblighthouses.com Official New Brunswick Canada LH Directory, Pharologist, photographer]


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