Show lighthouse has school unique on continent fredericton N B machias seal island a lonely and forbidding pile of rocks nine miles off the coast of maine can boast of what is is perhaps the oddest school on the north american continent the island itself is a part of maine but is leased to canada there at the mouth of the bay of fundy 12 miles from the canadian island of grand marian manan the dominion government maintains a large lighthouse for the protection of bay of fundy shipping the barren rock strewn island is maintained only by the two lighthouse keepers and their families and herbert W dayton a young new brunswick school teacher whom the government maintains on the island to instruct the three children of mr and mrs earle ingersoll the second lighthouse keeper and his wife the school is in the castle which formerly was the main lighthouse |