Katherine Bickford

The lighthouses and range lights in Port Borden, Prince Edward Island

The Port Borden Range Lights were established in 1918 to guide the ferry into the port at Borden.

The back range light helped play a role in the development of inter-provincial shipping and also aided the development of commercial fishing and the ferry terminal in the Borden-Carleton area.

The lighthouse was decommissioned in June 1997 with the completion of the Confederation Bridge. The back range light has been moved to the base of the Confederation Bridge and is part of the Rail/Marine Heritage Park.

The Port Borden Pier Lighthouse, a hexagonal tower with a height of 8.5 metres (28 feet), was placed at the outer end of the ferry pier in 1976.

The opening of the Confederation Bridge in 1997 ended eighty years of ferry service to Port Borden. Although the range lights were decommissioned, the Port Borden Pier Lighthouse remains active, displaying an isophase green light with a period of four seconds.