As you may have seen, the Cape Saint Mary’s Lighthouse park has continuously seen improvements since opening in 2018.
It has made for an enhanced tourist destination.
Larry Peach, the tourism manager for the Municipality of Clare, says site improvements took place this spring and summer.
“The improvements are meant to improve accessibility and to encourage longer stays at the park. We’ve added a two-unit restroom which includes one accessible portable.”
He says they hired a local company JD Composites to build a shelter housing the toilets.
“That’s made out of green technology, specifically, 26,000 recycled plastic bottles, so a really innovative partnership and it’s a long lasting material that’s really good for outdoor applications.”
Additional site improvements include:
o a wheelchair-accessible cement walkway from parking lot to picnic shelter
o general landscaping of the grounds
o a recycling station modelled after the provincial park systems
o wood cladding and crushed gravel around the base of Lost to the Sea memorial;
Improvements were funded by the Municipality of Clare and a provincial beautification program.
A concrete bench was donated by Laura and Louis Maillet in memory of their son Daniel Paul Maillet, who was lost at sea in 2006.
The park was officially opened on July 5, 2018, with an unveiling of a monument dedicated to those who lost their lives at sea. The park includes a picnic shelter, interpretive panels and a viewing scope.