Race Rocks Light is one of two lighthouses that were built on the west coast of Canada financed by the British Government and illuminated in 1860. It is the only lighthouse on that coast built of rock (granite) purportedly quarried in Scotland and topped with sandstone quarried on Gabriola Island.
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