And that New Brunswick also has a single manned lighthouse, although thatвЂ™s on Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine, and is maintained for Canadian sovereignty reasons. Then he told me that Newfoundland at the moment has 23 staffed lighthouses. When I called Chris Mills, a former light keeper who has written extensively about the lighthouses of Nova Scotia, I could hear him nodding from his home in Ketch Harbour in my mindвЂ™s eye his face tightened in a small grimace. The jaw-dropper for someone who takes a passing interest in lighthouses was, wait, 27 British Columbia lighthouses are still manned? Chris Mills and others make their way up to the Gannet Rock Lighthouse, south of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy, in August 2019. That our agents went to such lengths so that a few Canadians could have their democratic say in the governing of their country is mighty cool. This time it used a Canadian Coast Guard chopper to shuttle two Elections Canada service agents to 27 lighthouses up and down the West Coast, where 58 voting-age people live.

The agency, a news story informed us, has in the past delivered ballots by boat, snowmobile, plane and, for all we know, dog-sled. 21 vote, Elections Canada delivered special ballots via helicopter to lighthouse keepers living on remote islands along British ColumbiaвЂ™s coast. The other day someone pointed out one of the oddest: that, in the lead up to the Oct. A lot of strange, strange stuff happened in the recent federal election.

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