‘It isn’t a future thing.’ Climate change is taking a toll on Canada’s lighthouses

HALIFAX — For more than 150 years, the stout and tidy Walton Harbour lighthouse in Nova Scotia has stood watch from a cliff overlooking the upper Bay of Fundy.
But in recent years, coastal erosion left the historic wooden tower perilously close to the cliff’s edge, raising concerns that the community could lose a tourist draw and a link to its past.
“In the past 10 years or so, the erosion has increased in speed,” says John Ogilvie, vice-president of the Walton Area Devel