Pre-Confederation lighthouse near Brockville destroyed by fire after lightning strike

A longstanding piece of Canadiana was forever lost on Monday evening when the Cole Shoal lighthouse, just west of Brockville in the Thousand Islands, burned to the ground after presumably being struck by lightning. It was the last remaining of nine Canadian lighthouses built in the Thousand Islands in 1856.
“It was no longer a navigation aid, but it’s certainly a piece of history,” says conservation biologist and historian Mary Alice Snetsinger, who has extensively researched a