Cape Norman

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Cape Norman is a headland located at the northernmost point of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Cape Norman is located in the Strait of Belle Isle slightly north and west of Cape Bauld, which forms the northeastern tip of the Great Northern Peninsula and delineates the eastern end of the strait.

Cape Norman is a barren, rocky and windswept location. It first appeared on French maps as Cape Dordois, in 1713, and then as Cape Normand in 1744. Eventually, the name became anglicised as Cape Norman.

The Canadian government built a wooden, hexagonal lighthouse at Cape Norman during the summer construction seasons of 1870 and 1871, and the lighthouse was lit for the first time on October 1, 1871. In 1890, following the wreck of the SS Montreal at Belle Isle the previous summer, a steam-operated fog alarm was installed at the lightstation. John Campbell, a steam engineer from Pictou, Nova Scotia, was hired as lightkeeper and fog alarm engineer, replacing Henry Locke, the former lightkeeper. Campbell arrived at the cape in July 1890, beginning a family tenure which lasted until 1992, when the lightstation was automated by the Canadian Coast Guard.