Where is glace bay

Maximum counts during spring have reached totals of 6, birds. Although this site is regularly used by ducks, shorebirds and terns, high concentrations of these birds have not been recorded here.

Willets and American Black Ducks frequent the salt marsh, and Piping Plovers have been recorded on the beach. A private road on the east side of the beach means that motor vehicles can continue to access the beach, despite attempts by the landowner to gate the road.

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Thank you for your submission Our team will be reviewing your submission and get back to you with any further questions. Small craft wishing to anchor on dark nights often have to come too outside the bar, and send a man on shore with a lantern to mark the end of the pier and enable them to keep in the channel. There are two piers forming the harbour at Little Glace Bay running out from the shore in a north easterly direction, converging towards the end. The entrance between the piers is about feet wide.

The southern pier extends out about 20 feet further than the other, and is 48 feet wide at the end, and the northern pier is 24 feet wide at end. They are both built of timber, ballasted in cribs of 24 feet across, and about 8 feet apart.

The foot channel dredged through the bar, extends out about yards in a north-easterly direction, and further out widens and deepens into the bay.

It is about feet wide where it crosses the bar, and is so difficult to hit on a dark night, without a guiding light, that vessels do not attempt it except in fine weather and by day. Coal was shipped out of the harbours on Glace Bay until railroads were built to connect the local mines with the larger ports at Syndey at Louisbourg.

The port at Louisbourg was especially good as it remained free of ice during the winter. The following description of the lights was published in Range light towers were erected in Glace Cove, Glace Bay, and were put in operation on December 15, The front tower stands on the north pier at the entrance to Glace Cove, 10 feet from its outer end.

The tower is an enclosed wooden building, square in plan, with sloping sides, surmounted by a square wooden lantern, the whole painted white.

The height of the tower from its base to the top of the ventilator on the lantern is 22 feet. The light is fixed red dioptric of the sixth order, elevated 23 feet above high-water mark, and visible 6 miles from all points of approach. It is an inclosed wooden building, square in plan, with sloping sides, surmounted by a square wooden lantern, the whole painted white.

The height of the tower from its base to the top of the ventilator on the lantern is 42 feet. The light is fixed red catoptric, elevated 51 feet above high-water mark, and visible 8 miles in, and over a small arc on each side of the line of range.