North Cape Lighthouse

The North Cape Light is an active lighthouse on Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was built in 1867, and is still active.
A long, rocky reef, purported to be the longest in North America, extends seaward from the northeast tip of Prince Edward Island for roughly 2.4 km (1.5 miles) and marks the dividing point between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Northumberland Strait. The following report issued in 1834 was likely the first formal call for a lighthouse on North Cape to mark this navigational hazard.
On the N.W. point of Prince Edward Island, a light would be highly useful to vessels who crossing the Gulf are forced down in the bight by violent N.E. winds. The rapidly increasing trade of Miramichi and the many rising settlements in the Strait of Northumberland, would also well justify the erection of a Lighthouse there.

North Cape Lighthouse and dwelling in 1890:
A petition from ship owners and ship masters of the ports of Richmond Bay and New London setting forth the necessity of a light on North Cape for the safety of shipping was presented to the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island in 1840. The petitioners prayed that the government of the island and neighboring colonies would contribute “towards the erection and future maintenance of so desirable an object.” The following year the House passed a resolution calling upon the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island to enter into communication with the Imperial Government, and the governments of the adjoining colonies and the United States to determine if they would be willing to contribute a portion of the funds to cover the cost and maintenance of a light on North Cape.
A decade later, in 1851, the House of Assembly called upon the Lieutenant Governor to “enter into communications with the several Governments of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and with the Imperial Government"