Fisgard Lighthouse

Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, on Fisgard Island at the mouth of Esquimalt Harbour in Colwood, British Columbia, is the site of Fisgard Lighthouse, the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada.Fisgard Lighthouse is about 10 kilometres by boat or 12.5 kilometres by car from downtown Victoria. Automated in 1929, the light shows a white isophase light of 2 second period in a sector from 322° to 195° at 21.6 metres above mean sea level, and in other directions it shows red shutters. The white 14.6-metre tower is floodlit below balcony level.