Musquash, New Brunswick
Musquash is a Canadian rural community in Saint John County, New Brunswick. It is located 5 km (3.1 mi) west southwest of the community of Prince of Wales in Musquash Parish.
Location of Musquash in New Brunswick
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| Location | Musquash New Brunswick Canada |
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| Coordinates | 45°8′37.06″N 66°14′14.03″W |
| Year first constructed | 1879 (first) |
| Year first lit | 1959 (current) |
| Automated | early 1980s. |
| Deactivated | 1959 (first) |
| Foundation | concrete base |
| Construction | concrete tower (current) wooden tower (first) |
| Tower shape | octagonal tapered frustum tower with balcony and lantern (current) square frustum tower rising from keeper’s house (first) |
| Markings / pattern | white tower with a red horizontal band in the upper part, red lantern (current) white tower with a red horizontal band, red lantern (first) |
| Tower height | 14.3 metres (47 ft) |
| Focal height | 35 metres (115 ft) (current) 34 metres (112 ft) (first) |
| Light source | solar power |
| Range | 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi)[1] |
| Characteristic | Fl W 3s. |
| Fog signal | 4s. blast every 60s. |
| Admiralty number | H4096 |
| CHS number | CCG 97 |
| NGA number | 11148 |
| ARLHS number | CAN-332 |
| Managing agent | Musquash Head Lightstation Inc.[2][3] |
History
Musquash was settled in the early 1800s at the head of navigation on the Musquash River. The Shore Line Railway (later Canadian Pacific Railway was built through the community but has since been abandoned. The community includes the locales of Ivanhoe, West Musquash and Clinch's Mills. A post office was located in Musquash from 1847 to 1969. It was largely a farming and lumbering community but is now largely an exurb of Saint John, thanks to being located on the Route 1 expressway.
Notable people
References
- List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2015.
- Southern New Brunswick The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 25 March 2017
- Musquash Head, NB Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 25 March 2017
External links
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick - Musquash
- Natural Resources Canada - Musquash
- Picture of the lighthouse
- Aids to Navigation Canadian Coast Guard
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