Cape Forchu, Nova Scotia

Cape Forchu (/fɔːrˈʃuː/ for-SHOO)[1] is a Canadian fishing community and headland of the same name in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, fishing, water transportation and trade were essential to everyday life in Cape Forchu.

Since 2000, the original fresnel lens used at the lighthouse is located at the Yarmouth County Museum.

[5] For the exteriors shots, producers built a full-scale, 70-foot lighthouse tower on the cape that could withstand 120-kilometre winds.

The stamp shows the old lighthouse as it appears on a 1950 poster designed by Peter Ewart, promoting “Canada’s Picturesque East Coast” for Canadian Pacific.