Comments on: The Friday Fillip http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/27/the-friday-fillip-175/ A Canadian cooperative weblog on all things legal. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Simon Chester http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/27/the-friday-fillip-175/comment-page-1/#comment-708775 Simon Chester Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:32:54 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=14539#comment-708775 Surprised that readers haven't tumbled to the Canadian connection here, which is that in Scotland the Stevenson family was famous as the <a href="http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/isleofmay.htm" rel="nofollow">great innovators in lighthouse design</a>, and that Stevenson designed lights were recycled to Newfoundland where they can be seen to this day at <a href="http://www.explorenewfoundlandandlabrador.com/historic-sites/cape-bonavista-lighthouse.htm" rel="nofollow">Cape Bonavista</a>, <a href="http://roseblanchelighthouse.ca/About.asp" rel="nofollow">Rose Blanche</a> and Ferryland Slaw readers may be captivated by the <a href="http://www.canlii.org/en/nl/nlpc/doc/2006/2006canlii63815/2006canlii63815.pdf" rel="nofollow">Seward prosecution for duck hunting on lighthouse property</a>, which reads like something out of the 1928 <a href="http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=7653&step=4" rel="nofollow">Rockbound by Frank Parker Day </a> [yes I know that's Nova Scotia]. And here's a picture of the Cape Bonavista light designed by RLS' father and uncle. <img src="http://www.chestercandles.com/i-shoppro/images/cape_bonavista.jpg" alt="RLS light" /> Surprised that readers haven’t tumbled to the Canadian connection here, which is that in Scotland the Stevenson family was famous as the great innovators in lighthouse design, and that Stevenson designed lights were recycled to Newfoundland where they can be seen to this day at Cape Bonavista, Rose Blanche and Ferryland

Slaw readers may be captivated by the Seward prosecution for duck hunting on lighthouse property, which reads like something out of the 1928 Rockbound by Frank Parker Day [yes I know that's Nova Scotia].

And here’s a picture of the Cape Bonavista light designed by RLS’ father and uncle.

RLS light

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