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Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 9



The Canadian Lighthouse

by Edward F. Bush

Bibliograpy

Primary Sources

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Canada. Department of Transport.
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Secondary Sources

AGA News
Aids to Navigation, 1969.

Anderson. William P.
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Bannister, J. A.
Long Point and Its Lighthouses. Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Oct., 1944.

Bird, Will R.
"Nova Scotia Has Many Lights." Canadian Geographical Journal, Vol. 54 (March 1957), pp. 90-103. Ottawa.

Bowen, John Poland
British Lighthouses, Longmans, Green, London, 1947.

Calladine, W. A.
"Lighthouses Along the St. Lawrence," Unpubl. MS. N.p., ibid.

Canada. Department of Marine and Fisheries,
Review of the Improvements in Lighthouse and Coast Service of Canada between 1896 and Year Ending 31 December 1903, King's Printer, Ottawa, 1904.

Canada. Department of Public Works.
Report of the Commissioner of Public Works for the Year Ending 30 June 1867, Hunter Rose, Ottawa, 1868.

Canada. Department of Transport.
List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals, Atlantic Coast and the Gulf and River St. Lawrence to Montreal, Pacific Coast and the Rivers and Lakes of British Columbia, Newfoundland including the Coastal Waters of Labrador, and Inland Waters West of Montreal and East of British Columbia, 1965, 1966, 1970 eds, Queen's Printer, Ottawa.

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The Romance of Lighthouses, Seelay, London, 1926.

Corwin, Thomas
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Findlay, Alexander George
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Johnson, George
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Majdelany, Fred
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Oke, Robert
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Principal Advances Made Recently in Lighting, Beaconing and Signaling of Coasts, Brussels, 1923.

Phillips, Godfrey W.
Lighthouse and Lightship; And the Men Who Man the Trinity House Service, Robert Ross, London, n.d.

Powell, Henry J.
Glass-making in England, University Press, Cambridge, 1923.

Putnam, George R.
Sentinel of the Coasts. The Log of a Lighthouse Engineer, Morton and Co., N.Y., 1937.

Radford, J.
"Modern Lighthouses and Light-Vessels," Nautical Magazine, Vol. 169, No. 6 (June 1953), pp. 339-41. Glasgow.

Richardson, E.
We keep a Light, Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1945.

Ryder, Alfred P.
Heads of Inquiry into the State and Condition of Lighthouses, Harrison and Sons, London, 1864.

Santangini, Ernest
Fixed Structures to Replace Lightships, U.S.G.P.O., Washington, 1950.

Scott, George
Scott's New Coast Pilot for the Lakes, Containing a Complete List of all Lights, Lighthouses, Fog Signals and Buoys on American and Canadian Shores, 3d ed. Free Press, Detroit, 1890.

Smeaton, John
A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Eddystone Lighthouse with Stone, H. Hughes, London, 1791.

Stevens, John R.
"Lighthouses on the Great Lakes," Manuscript Report Series No. 94, Parks Canada, Ottawa.

Stevenson, D. Alan
The World's Lighthouses Before 1820, Oxford Univ. Press, London, 1959.

Tait, Thomas R.
Early History of Lighthouses with a Short Account of Lighthouse Legislation in the United Kingdom and Excerpts from Existing Acts Affecting the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, J. Hedderwick and Sons, Glasgow, 1902.

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Wilkinson, Roderick
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National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Ottawa



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