It was a cast iron tower with a coal oil lamp turned by clockwork.
[8] Great landfall lights like those at Cape Race provided the first sight of land for Atlantic travelers.
[9] After the new tower was built, the original lighthouse was moved to Cape North; it now stands in front of the National Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.
The Cape Race Lighthouse was in the news in April 1912, when it received the Titanic distress call, an unusual event for radio technology of the era.
Part of this material serves as the heel brace at the joint of the neck and body of Voyageur, the guitar at the heart of the project.