This First Person column is written by Caroline Woodward, who worked as a lighthouse keeper on the Pacific Coast from 2008 to 2021. For more information about First Person stories, see the FAQ.

Since 2009, the Coast Guard has been trying to get rid of staff at the last 50 lighthouses in Canada that still have light keepers. Of those, 27 are on the Pacific and 23 on the Atlantic.

From 1981 until 1990, Mr. Drew was the assistant lighthouse keeper at Mosher Island, which has had a lighthouse in continuous operation since 1868.

The Canadian Coast Guard and a federal workers’ agency are investigating after an on-duty lighthouse keeper died in April at the Triple Island Lighthouse Station, 40 kilometres west of Prince ...

Barry Porter's life as a lighthouse keeper was recently turned into a comic strip in the Washington Post. (Barry Porter)A lighthouse keeper's memoir has gotten the comic book treatment with a new ...

Applicants need to be able to depart for a light station in either Victoria, Port Hardy, Tofino, Bella Bella, or Price Rupert, British Columbia. Pay for the gig ranges between $45,241 and $60,707.

There are a few good reasons to become a lighthouse keeper in B.C.: To watch the migrating birds and the migrating grays, humpbacks, and orcas, and the white-sided dolphins in their super pods.