Cape Scott Lighthouse is at the northwestern extremity of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

[4] The community apparently maintained a stake light and lantern at the cape for a period.

This red lantern, fitted to a wooden mast,[6] comprised an unwatched acetylene gas light.

[7] During World War II, the Royal Canadian Air Force erected a radar tower near the point, and a camp in the woods immediately east of the Guise Bay neck.

The contingent of up to 70 military personnel relied upon a weekly supply ship, which offloaded into rowboats for transport to shore.