On an uninhabited island just off the community of Westport, N.S., a part of the community's past is quietly disintegrating.

But this summer, a group of volunteers will be arriving on Brier Island from across North America, to bring that structure back to life.

The Peter Island lighthouse was built in 1909 to guide ships through treacherous tides and thick fog at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy.

John Schwinghamer is shown in the church he restored in Westport. (Moira Donovan/CBC)

"The lighthouse is such an iconic looking lighthouse on … this rugged island with the tides and the huge waves smashing against the rocks," says volunteer John Schwinghamer. "It really doesn't get more beautiful than that."

The Canadian Coast Guard decommissioned the lighthouse in 2014. By the time the Munici

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