#NSLighthouseProject: Medway Head Lighthouses, near Port Medway, Nova Scotia, Canada, via DJI drone
Filmed on a remarkable, yet eerie, day with high surf and low winds in February 2016, experience both the 1927 lighthouse, and the new lighthouse constructed in 1983, located at Medway Head, near Port Medway, Queens County, Nova Scotia.
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Port Medway Light House Park
The Port Medway Lighthouse is a few exits after Liverpool heading to Halifax on the 103
Medway Head Lighthouse, Nova Scotia
This pyramidal wooden tower 29 feet (8.8m) high was built in 1983 to replace a dilapidated fiberglass tower, which was built in 1963. Prior to that, two other lighthouses existed in this location. One of them is the nearby two-story square house with a lantern on the roof, as seen on the video. To learn more about the history of the lighthouse and the Port Medway community, please click medwayheadlighthouse.org. Thank you for your support!
1582 Port Medway Road
Our new home by the water, the Port Grocer, and the Port Medway
Lighthouse. This is a thriving, warm and friendly community with lots of beaches to explore!
Port Medway road trip from 1930s to 2017
The French originally named this area Port Moltare. The fishermen who later settled here in 1760 helped to develop this area into a thriving shipping community. Cargoes of salted and dried fish were shipped to the United States, Caribbean and South America. Lumber from the sawmills of Greenfield, Charleston and Mill Village were loaded on ships and sailed to foreign ports.
Today, Port Medway has many attractions including the picturesque Medway Head Lighthouse near Long Cove and is the birthplace of country music artist Carroll Baker.
Port Medway is off exit 17a on Highway 103.
This old video I found in Nova Scotia Archive and it data in 1930s. There not alt history of Port Medway on internet and hope to change this to study book written about Port Medway history here Nova Scotia. I hope like video and we trying hard to get the facts on histories that lose into the history book for everyone to see!
The French originally named this area Port Moltare. The fishermen who later settled here in 1760 helped to develop this area into a thriving shipping community. Cargoes of salted and dried fish were shipped to the United States, Caribbean and South America. Lumber from the sawmills of Greenfield, Charleston and Mill Village were loaded on ships and sailed to foreign ports.
Today, Port Medway has many attractions including the picturesque Medway Head Lighthouse near Long Cove and is the birthplace of country music artist The nearby fishing village of Port Medway, Nova Scotia displays a sign near the village entry claiming the community to be The Home of Carroll Baker. She left Port Medway and moved to Toronto with her family when she was 16.
Patrick in Port Medway
Patrick's last day at Port Medway and he got the snow he wanted!
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Music: Humanize by Lizzo from Big Grrrl Small World is copyright under BGSW Studio, 2015
East Port Medway North
Along Hwy 331 in Lunenburg Co, Nova Scotia, heading from East Port Medway (Queens County) towards Vogler's Cove.
East Port Medway South
Along Highway 331 in Lunenburg Co, Nova Scotia, approaching East Port Medway and Queens County.
Snow in Port Medway
Well it finally came down. Yesterday it was so cold my clothes hanging by the clothesline all froze. My pants could stand on its own!
View in Port La Tour
Afternoon view in Port La Tour.
Port Medway River families living
This video show how the families live along Medway River and was there many other families way of living life for hundred years off Medway River food ,fishing and fun that use their river to feed there families. I use the Moreau family to show all families live the same way there. I knew Moreau family personally and thought it would great to show their family for all the other families that live off the river for hundreds of years. Port Medway was once a big town
The Moreau were the kindest people that would take anyone who needed help in home and give them a meal even if never knew you and river people would. They both when to church faithfully and held on to their Christians valves through whole of their lives to very end they kept their faith strong. Yes they passed on and we like to share some of their great memories through their lives in Port Medway and Mill Village living life on Medway River!
If any of you had chance to get know these folks you would think you were bless by these folks. They carry the spirit of Nova Scotia where ever they went. Make this video with help from their son Byron Moreau and sister Barbra –ann Parnell help to make this video possible for their mom and dad if many great memories gone past and to always remember these two great wonderful people forever!!
In memory of our mother Geraldine Moreau who passed away may 13, 2004. Our beloved mothe./She was a wonderful mother to us all, she did many things for us and with these pictures and us will show, she kept the family together and she was a church member she did many kind deeds for others and help all she could. She was a loving grandmother and was devoted to all of us her family, she help in the community and left her love shine in all kinds of ways. She is so missed by everyone of us who loved her dearly, she is very much a part of us all, she is gone but will never be forgotten by her families and loved ones this is from all of us to her and her wonderful memory she left behind for us all. Always loved and missed by her loving families. Our talk to God about our loving mother who is gone home to the Lord, but always stay in our heart forever, we love you your families. I said, God I hurt” and God said, “I know” I said “God I cry a lot” God said, “that’s why I gave you sunshine”
I said, God life is hard, God said, that’s why I gave you loved ones
I said, God my loved one died, God said so did mine.
I said, God its a loss, God said, I saw mine nailed to a cross, I said, God your love one lives, God says, so does yours,I said, “where are they now? God said mine is on my right and yours is in the light” I said, God it hurts” God says my children “I know your pain.Mom we love you from all your family.
Port Medway Sunny Day
July 2018
Western Head & Port Medway Lighthouse story
The Last of the Lighthouse Keeper
Lemuel Moreau Light Keeper Western Head Lighthouse keeper and Medway Head. Celebrating his Birthday on Saturday November 15, 2008 he will be 84 years old. This is a tribute to the many things he saw during his years as a lighthouse keeper. The Last Great Lighthouse Keepers of the South Shore are but gone from us.
The Writer (Chris Mills) met Western Head Lighthouse keeper Lemuel Moreau
And he took us to into the big, rambling foghorn building, Lemuel had the whole place painted up room the white ceilings, to the high-gloss,
Battleships gray floors. He explained hoe he reported the weather, and
logged the Coast Guard helicopters trips to his lighthouse for fuel.
Everything was immaculate and in its place - even the wrenches had hooks
And little outlines drawn on the wall so you'd know where they belonged. On
that day, Lemuel symbolized for me pride and attention to detail that marked
His profession, even after most of his duties had been taken away by
Automated equipment.
By 1988, even though Lemuel was still on the station, the whole kit and
kaboodle was monitored from afar. If he wanted to get into the tower, he had
to call the keepers at Cape Forchu to disable the intrusion alarm. He didn't
even have to climb the lighthouse tower to clean the lantern windows or
squeeze a little oil into the lights rotating mechanism.
Lemuel told me at the time, I don't know what its working like now. I
haven't been up there. and he trailed off, trying to remember just when he
had been up to his lighthouse.
Today, the light is still there, lens-turning 24-7. All that's left of the
old foghorn building is a concrete pad, with no trace of the high-gloss
paint. The fog detector, the back up engines, the radios, everything is now
stuffed into the lighthouse, which stands as the only reminder that this is
indeed a light station.
No Lemuel and Geraldine Moreau, welcoming a visitor in for a cup of
coffee on a cold day. No more stories of storms, visitors, and Coast Guard
characters.
Today, I stop just past the DGPS Towers. There, among the stunted spruce
and alders, is a rotten section of picked fence. It is the only other
reminder here that Western head was once a busy, proud, and painted-up
light station.
Port Medway Saturday Night fun
These are old pictures of the family living in Port Medway and Mill Village Nova Scotia living style ,live of Lighthouse keeper in Western head,
5 LIGHTHOUSE Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia Canada
5 Lighthouses in Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia Canada
We visited there 5 lighthouses in 2 days while visiting Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia.
The lighthouses in Canada are all short compared to lighthouse in the southern United States.
Have you visited any of these lighthouses?
Fort Point Light
Ft Point Lighthouse is the 3rd oldest surviving lighthouse in Nova Scotia. It is open to the public mid-May to mid- October.
Built in 1855
The original light was red, but replaced in 1926 with a white flashing light.
Hampton Harbour Light ( Hampton Lighthouse )
White wooden pepper-shaker tower 10.1 meters tall
Built in 1911
Port Medway Lighthouse Park
Established in 1899
It has a square white wooden tower
The light was electrified in 1967 and light color was changed from red to green in 1967
The park was completed in 2002
Digby Pier Lighthouse
Was originally located on Digby Pier est 1887. In 1983 it was moved
and given to St John when the pier was deemed unsafe.
In 2012 it was given back to Digby.
Prim Point Lighthouse
Built in 1804 replaced in 1817 to a square dwelling.
Red and white.
The Lighthouse Lady Channel
Port Medway Harbour
August 1st 2010
Lighthouse park - Canada
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LightHouse Park, BC - Canada.
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Medway River April 30 / 2017
Sunset timelapse at Port Medway, NS
View of the dock from the rental cottage in Port Medway, NS, Canada.