The building is a bare frame structure and was never meant to be used as a dwelling by a lighthouse keeper, who stayed in a nearby cottage.

[3] The shifting in direction of the deep water channel to Toronto Harbour necessitated the moving of the red light lighthouse in 1885.

[1] The lighthouse currently sits at the eastern edge of the Gore park about one block north from the current shoreline and is contained within a small Toronto Transit Commission streetcar loop.

[10] When the loop first opened on June 22, 1931 it could only turn westbound streetcars back east.

[11] Passengers cannot access vehicles here and must board streetcars at a stop just east of the loop.