Cape Race

The original Chance Brothers hyperradiant Fresnel lens (larger than 1st order) is still in use; one of fewer than a dozen ever built, the lens has a range of 24 miles. Fog horn (2 blasts every 60 s). Two keeper's houses and several utility buildings.

The original 1856 lighthouse was relocated, first to Cape North, Nova Scotia, and then in 1980 to Ottawa, where it is on display outside the Canada Science and Technology Museum. This light station, the first landfall for ships bound to Canada from Europe, has an importance in Canadian lighthouse history similar to the importance of Cape Hatteras Light in the U.S. When it was built it was the world's most powerful lighthouse at 1.5 million candlepower.

The station played a key role in communications for decades and in 1912 it received the SOS call from the Titanic; the Myrick Wireless Interpretation Centre is a replica of the wireless station. Cape Race has been designated a national historic site but the park is undeveloped as yet. Cape Race Heritage, Inc., is working on restoration plans. The exterior of the tower, which had weathered badly, was restored in 1996-97. In 2004 the lighthouse was opened for tours.

The lighthouse was granted Heritage status in 2015. In 2018 the lighthouse was closed to tours pending cleanup of a mercury spill inside the lantern. Located on the southeasternmost point of Newfoundland; accessible by a 20 km (12.5 mi) gravel road (4WD strongly recommended). (A contract to improve the road was awarded in 2017, but only 7 km (4 mi) will be paved and the rest will remain gravel.) Site open, tower closed.

About Chance Brothers
Source https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1308
In 1906, the Canadian government contracted the Steel Concrete Company of Montreal to construct the country’s first reinforced concrete lighthouse for Cape Race. A lantern room that housed a behemoth hyper-radial lens topped this new lighthouse, which at 30.5 metres tall was nearly twice as tall as the iron tower it replaced. The lantern room and lens were manufactured in England by Chance Brothers, and the lens, when it was put into operation on October 1, 1907, was the largest lighting apparatus in North or South America. The lens has four flash-panels and is mounted on a cast-iron table that floats in a mercury bath, which allowed it to be easily revolved by a weight-driven clockwork mechanism. An incandescent petroleum vapour lamp was originally used inside the lens, and when first established the light’s characteristic was a white flash every five seconds. A few years later, the characteristic was changed to a flash every 7.5 seconds and remains so today.