Remote lighthouse island for sale for $6.9 million

For 35 years, Henry Island has been a private retreat for William F. Baker and his wife, Jeannemarie Gelin-Baker. The couple, who purchased the remote property in 1991, used it as a holiday home. The 220-acre remote isle off the coast of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island has a four-bedroom house and a functioning 53-foot lighthouse dating from 1902.

After owning it for more than three decades, the couple has listed the property for C$6.99 million, according to a report by CBC. The most interesting part? The only way to reach the property is by boat or helicopter!The history of the islandA working lighthouse, a red-and-white house and about 220 acres of cliffs, coves and forest are for sale off Port Hood, Nova Scotia! Henry Island sits about four kilometres offshore from Port Hood, on the west coast of Cape Breton.

The Bakers are not the first family to own the isle. The island was first settled in 1832 and named after the son of a Halifax admiral who was stationed in the city in the mid-1700s, according to Cottage Life. A post office opened five decades later.