Chebucto Head

This tower was demolished in 1940 and a new lighthouse and combined keeper's dwelling was built several hundred metres to the north to make way for a gun battery.

During World War II, Halifax Harbour was the primary fast convoy departure and arrival point in eastern North America.

The Royal Canadian Artillery operated a searchlight and coastal gun battery at Chebucto Head as part of "Fortress Halifax" as a means of providing an integrated defence for the port.

The fortified battery was armed with three Elswick 6 in (150 mm) naval guns with associated searchlight, director tower, generators, a long-range optical rangefinder and by 1943 a radar artillery control unit.

On 16 April 1945, HMCS Esquimalt, a minesweeper, was torpedoed and sunk off Chebucto Head by U-190, becoming the last Royal Canadian Navy warship lost to enemy action in World War II.