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Queen's Wharf Lighthouse

1861 establishments in CanadaAC with 0 elementsBuildings and structures in TorontoCommons category link is locally definedLighthouses completed in 1861
Lighthouses in Ontario
Fleet Street Lighthouse
Fleet Street Lighthouse

The Queen's Wharf Lighthouse (also known as the Fleet Street Lighthouse, after its current location) is a lighthouse in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is situated at Fleet Street just east of the Princes' Gates at Exhibition Place. The octagonal building was originally part of a pair of lighthouses built in 1861 at Queen's Wharf, replacing an earlier 16-foot lighthouse built in 1838. The 11-metre (36-foot) three-storey wood structure is one of two surviving 19th-century lighthouses in Toronto (the other being Gibraltar Point Lighthouse).

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Queen's Wharf Lighthouse
Lake Shore Boulevard West, Toronto

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Lake Shore Boulevard West
M5V 1A4 Toronto
Ontario, Canada
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