Also recorded as Edward D. Rankin · Edward Rankin Junior
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Island story
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.
Family connections
No further family relationship is established by the available records.
Places & memorials
- Pictou Island
- South Lighthouse
Related PIHS history
Sources and photo credits
- PIHS lighthouse research
- PIHS lighthouse history