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Edward D. Rankin Jr.
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Edward D. Rankin is reported as a South Lighthouse keeper from approximately 1945 to approximately 1965. The surviving sources do not establish his precise appointment chronology, exact family relationship or the meaning of the reported 1965 endpoint. The current evidence does not describe that endpoint as closure or automation.
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- Pictou Island Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.
- South Lighthouse Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.
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Contribute evidence or a correction →Census households · 1911
195 enumerated residents in 37 original census family units. These are source households, not inferred genealogical branches or street addresses. Cancelled entries are excluded; source spellings and recorded ages are retained.
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