Toronto’s Gibralter Point Lighthouse turns 200, visited by keepers’ descendants
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by Ken Brown | Source: Toronto Sun (includes video)
The western end of Toronto Island is home to the 200-year-old Gibralter Point lighthouse, and Ted English is a member of the Durnan family, which has a long history with the island and its lighthouse.
Completed in 1808, it’s the oldest working lighthouse on the Great Lakes and the second oldest in Canada.
The third keeper of the Gibralter Point lighthouse was English’s great-great-grandfather James Durnan.
“It’s much more than a lighthouse,” said English, a former Toronto Island resident himself. “It’s a keystone of the whole family”
Read this special family’s history, and the 200th anniversary of the light at the Toronto Sun >>
