The station was isolated from the rest of the Bruce Peninsula for much of its existence. Keeper Norman Wheeton, who served from 1949 to 1965, spent two years building a road to the lighthouse. Subsequently, he and his wife would arrive at the station each April via this road and depart each December, when the station was closed for the season.

Juanita Bourke, wife of a keeper at Cape Croker, had the following poem published in a Depart of Transport publication for Christmas 1966.

On "The Light" Before Christmas
'Twas ten days before Christmas and all through the night
Snowflakes danced in the rays of Cape Croker's big light.
Santa jingled his bells up at the North Pole
While I scanned the road full of drifts and potholes.

The wilderness road that would take us from here
Had ruts deep enough to gulp Santa's reindeer.
December was up to its usual tricks
And I thought, with a sigh, "We are in a fix!"

I sprang from my chair to view Georgian Bay -
The season's last freighter was passing our way.
There was one thing to do ere the end of the year -
Close up the station and get out of here.

Then in a flash, while the fog-horn did clatter,
I saw just the way to settle the matter.
All it would take- now, what was that word?
What we needed was a whirly-bird!

A 'chopper to sky-lift us over the bluffs
To avoid all the drifts, the potholes and ruts.
Oh for a helicopter, Saint Nicholas, please -
So we can be home for Christmas Eve!

F. Jerome Peroulx was the last keeper at Cape Croker, leaving the station in 1986 after six years of service.

The Coast Guard removed the third-order Fresnel lens from the tower in 2007, as repeated vandalism was threatening its safety. After learning of the removal, the Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre immediately entered into negotiations with the Coast Guard to gain custody of the lens. In early 2009, the museum learned it would be receiving the lens, and after a long-term lease agreement was signed, the Coast Guard installed the lens at the museum during the last week of February. The crowd gathered to witness the first official illumination of the lens in the museum stood in awe at the brightness of the light and the kaleidoscope of colors cast on the back nearby walls. The one-story keeper’s dwelling had been removed from the station by 2008.

Information on Cape Croker Lighthouse

History	Light Characteristics	Focal Height	Nominal Range	Description/Height of tower above ground
Erected in 1902.	Two-second white flash every 4 seconds.	18.7 m.	13 M	White octagonal tower, red lantern. 15.9 m.

References

1. Canadian Lighthouses: From Goderich to Christian Island, Laura M. Gateman, 2006.
2. "Historic lighthouse lens returns to Bruce County," Patrick Bales, Shoreline Beacon, March 5, 2009.