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Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Museum
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Jen
April 17, 2022
History with the Titanic...read on A Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station was built adjacent to the Cape Bear Lighthouse in 1905, one of seven such stations established by the Department of Marine and Fisheries around that time. A large pole measuring 165 feet was erected near the lighthouse and held in an upright position by several guy wires cemented into the ground. Its principal purpose was to communicate with ships at sea and the ice-breaking steamers, Stanley and Minto, which linked Pictou, Nova Scotia with Charlottetown and Georgetown, Prince Edward Island. B. E. Hobbs operated the station from 1905 to 1912, and Thomas Bartlett then kept the station until it was relocated to Charlottetown in 1922. On the night of April 14, 1912, Bartlett received the first distress signal in Canada from the Titanic as it was sinking off the coast of Newfoundland. A similar station at Cape Race in Newfoundland was in communication with the Titanic, but at that time Newfoundland was not a part of Canada. The Cape Bear Marconi Station ceased operations in 1922, and the building that housed the station was sold to Robert Glover in 1929. The structure now serves as a family home in Guernsey Cove.
History with the Titanic...read on A Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station was built adjacent to the Cape Bear Lighthouse in 1905, one of seven such stations established by the Department of Marine and Fisheries around that time. A large pole measuring 165 feet was erected near the lighthouse and held…
Layni & Michael Connolly
July 11, 2019
This was the first Canadian station that heard the distress signal from the Titanic. There is a lot of history to this little lighthouse and it isn't very far away. Head on over for a little tour.
Treena
October 26, 2016
Just a short and scenic drive away. Continue past the lighthouse down the dirt road for impressive views of PEI's famous red cliffs.
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42 Black Brook Rd
Murray Harbour, PE