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Mary Weeks-Mifflin & Ray Mifflin
Softcover
60 pages
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The Light on Chantry Island
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Thousands of American and Canadian lighthouse-lovers visit the Chantry Island lighthouse on Lake Huron each year. Built off Southampton, Ontario in 1859 after a series of disastrous shipwrecks, this lighthouse is one of the most charming, history-filled lights on the Great Lakes.
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