Name: Wrights Front Range Lighthouse
Established: 1903
Constructed: 1903
Location: Victoria, Prince Edward Island
Wrights Front Range Lighthouse is a 3.7 metre (12 feet) wooden square-tapered tower designed to guide vessels into Victoria Harbour from the Northumberland Strait. The lighthouse is located in an open field on a point known locally as “Paul’s Bluff”, situated approximately 1 kilometre southwest of Victoria, Prince Edward Island. The lighthouse was built in 1903 and is one of a pair of Wrights Range lighthouses and one of six range lighthouses near Victoria Harbour, all dating from the mid-to-late 19th century. It stands as an example of the second generation of lighthouses built in Prince Edward Island after Confederation. It supported Victoria Harbour’s role as a key shipping outlet for the southwestern part of the island.
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