 The house was destroyed by a suspicious fire on March 25, 2004.The Chebucto Head Lighthouse Society, a group formed to try to save the lighthouse continues to work to keep the site preserved and open to the public.Chebucto Head was used by the CCG as the control centre for the Vessel Traffic Service or VTS that controlled vessel movements in Halifax Harbour until the 1980s when a new control centre was opened at Shannon Hill, above the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth.