Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Station

A lighthouse, plus the remains of an old telegraph station.

The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station was built adjacent to the Cape Bear Lighthouse in 1905.

On the night of April 14, 1912, this station received the first distress signal in Canada from the Titanic as it was sinking off the coast of Newfoundland. A similar station at Cape Race in Newfoundland was in communication with the Titanic, but at that time Newfoundland was not a part of Canada.Read more