Point Amour Lighthouse
L'Anse Amour Road, off Highway 510, 10 minutes north of Forteau on the Straits of Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador. How to get here.
Imagine... you're at the top of the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada - the second tallest in Canada - look, there's an iceberg, a whale breaching, and a shipwreck in the distance....
Point Amour Lighthouse is a lot more than a great view... it's a snapshot of life on the Straits, set in a spectacular landscape. Whales and icebergs are just the beginning - coastal hikes, wildflowers, fossils, the wreck of the HMS Raleigh, and the oldest burial mound in North America - get your hiking shoes on and your camera out.
Note this site is only accessible via a 4 km gravel
road.
SPECIAL EXHIBITION for Summer 2011
The Holloways: Newfoundland and Labrador's First
Family of Photography
at the Point Amour Lighthouse PHS, Heritage Centre
June 25 - September 30, 2011
Open daily, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
Robert E. Holloway captured timeless images of Newfoundland and Labrador as it was at the end of the 1800s. Photographing throughout the colony during the summers of the late 1880s until 1903, his photographs recorded spectacular scenery and small communities, including those along the Labrador coast. After his death, his children Bert and Elsie Holloway, continued their father's passion and made some of the most iconic images in the province's history, documenting the 1914 Sealing Disaster and soldiers going to the Front in World War I.
Curated by Manfred Buchheit for The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador, Provincial Archives Division.
