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Aids to Navigation Program
The Canadian Coast Guard, Aids to Navigation program is part of the Navigation Systems branch which consists of two other major programs: Waterways Development and Icebreaking.
Program Mission and Responsibilities
To manage, maintain, and provide aids to navigation in Canadian waters in order to facilitate safe and expeditious movement of maritime traffic to protect the marine and freshwater environment, maintain maritime safety and to facilitate maritime commerce and ocean development. Aids to Navigation consist of the following:
- Public Aids - fixed aids (lighthouses, beacons, lights); through to floating aids (small, medium and large buoys); DGPS (Differential Global Positioning system) and LORAN C (Long-range Navigation) services.
- Private Aids - providing guidelines and assistance to private organizations or individuals.
- Safety information - notices to mariners (NOTMAR).
Our clients
- Recreational boating community
- Commercial shippers
- Commercial fishers (and their associations)
- Canadian citizens at large
How to contact us ...
Should you wish to report an aid to navigation discrepancy, please contact your local or regional Canadian Coast Guard Office as this email address is not monitored 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.
General Enquiries
by email:
by post:
Canadian Coast Guard - Aids to Navigation
200 Kent Street, Station 5N157
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0E6
CANADA
or by Fax:
(613) 998.8428
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