Fisheries Museum Gets a Lighthouse
By Sue Clark on Dec 23, 2007 in The Light Side 
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The Northumberland Fisheries Museum in Pictou, Nova Scotia, is almost ready to move into its new home, complete with a two-thirds scale model of the former Caribou Lighthouse at the end of the wharf. The working model of the original lighthouse on Caribou Island was pieced together by the members of Air Engineering Flight 114 Pictou County (Reserves). The actual building of it was done off site by the carpentry students at Nova Scotia Community College and moved to the wharf over the road. The rough-wired lighthouse will have the interior completed by the Reserves as the time comes to finish the project.
The current lighthouse at Caribou Island is the third incarnation of the beacon. The original was built in 1868 and was replaced once in 1916 and again around 1968 tp 1970. It was completely automated in 1990. The original light is pictured in the photo below.
The lighthouse replica at the museum will house lightkeeping memorabilia, and will join such exhibits as an authentic fisherman’s bunkhouse, a 1930s racing/lobster boat, a lobster hatchery, and thousands of other displays paying tribute to the life and times, past and present, of the fishing industry.
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