Nine Mile

noun, the lighthouse located at Nine Mile Point on Simcoe Island

“Each fog station and light station on The Great Lakes had a different time. Like, I’ll give you an example. Nine Mile up here, when the old schooners used to come in, she had a three second light flash every thirty seconds. The horn blew a three-second blast every thirty seconds. So these old timers, when they come in, they didn’t have to, for an example, see the light, but they could time the horn… and they’d say, ‘Well, that’s Nine Mile’.”

“The last few years, the government, they want remedial work around all the lighthouses ’cause of lead-based paint… got in the soil, and they had to cart all the soil all off somewhere else. And they had to twice up at Nine Mile, didn’t they?”