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Bruce Peninsula Press independently reports the Lion’s Head lighthouse was installed in 1913, blown across the harbour in 1913, and restored afterward. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Rise Again: Lion’s Head Lighthouse Version 3.0 · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:8317dde0111215fd0fe7ea7af9336f72857d6a52fe4eb3af0a8cf4a96e08fd47

The original lighthouse was installed in 1913 to replace a lantern on a metal pole. A few months later, during the White Hurricane of 1913, the lighthouse was lifted off its footings and blown across the harbour onto the beach. Miraculously it was not badly damaged. Restored to a slightly more sheltered spot, it served for half a century.