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051 |
A long shot of Estevan Point Lighthouse from a beach to the
north of the station. |
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052 |
Estevan Point station personnel enjoying a beach outing. |
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Estevan Point station personnel enjoying a beach outing. |
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054 |
Estevan Point station personnel enjoying a beach outing. |
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055 |
Charlie & Gene Aitkens enjoying a 3 hole golf course at
Estevan. |
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The little girl is Joyce Unwin. |
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058 |
Some Estevan Point ladies. From the left: Ada Unwin,
little Joyce Unwin, Mrs. Meiss, daughter Thelma Meiss & Mary Spouse.
Mary Spouse's husband was the power house operator. The rest
of the ladies were married to radio operators. |
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059 |
Album page showing the layout of the photos. |
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060 |
Album page showing the layout of the photos. |
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061 |
From the left are Frieda Spouse, Dick Cole & Gene Aitkens. |
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062 |
Estevan wireless operator Tommy (Gene Aitkens' brother), little
Ray Spouse and little Joyce Unwin. |
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063 |
Estevan wireless operator Tommy (Gene Aitkens' brother), little
Ray Spouse and little Joyce Unwin. |
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064 |
Estevan Point crew. From the left are Dave Beatty the Light
Keeper's
Assistant, Cecil Grey, Charlie Aitkens, Ed Beart, Ray Spouse and
Phil Eldridge. (Gene Aitkens' notes) |
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065 |
This could be a photo of the Aitkens' house at Estevan Point.
Bowerman mentions in his narrative the number of well tended
vegetable and flower gardens at the sites he visited. |
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066 |
Mary Spouse and Mable Hamilton The Hamilton's owned a farm
up past Homiss. Mrs Hamilton eventually went to Ireland.
Ray Spouse was the Estevan station's power house operator.
The photo album page identifies the two ladies, but there is some
debate as the Mable Hamilton identified here does not look like her
in a photo sent in by a contributor. |
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067 |
Taylor, shown here in the 1930's at Estevan Point with Gene
Aitkens, was an ex English and Canadian Marconi Company engineer.
Taylor was an early operator who went back east during the early
days of World War One for duty. In 1916 he was appointed the
workshop's assistant engineer to Stephenson. J. D. Taylor
carried out, with Gilbert and Stephenson, the installation and
calibration of the new Pachena Direction Finding Station in 1922. |
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068 |
Some of the lads of Estevan Point: from the left George Smith,
Charles Aitkens, Phil Eldridge, Ray Spouse, & Elmo Meiss |
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069 |
Don Archibald is shown with Gene Aitkens at Estevan. He
was there in June 1935. Often
visitors to the station would board with others on the site.
Archibald came to 'check the barometers', so from that I assume he
was a meteorological technician periodically visiting all the
weather reporting stations to check the calibration of the
instruments. A D.C. Archibald is mentioned several times in
this history of the
Canadian Meteorological Service. |
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070 |
Charlie and Gene Aitkens at Estevan. |
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071 |
Joe Meiss, in the 1934-37 period, was the Estevan station's chief wireless operator. |
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072 |
George Gilbert, wireless technician boarded with the Aitkens.
Gene Aitken's diary has him arriving on January 25, 1934.
(The Maquinna had rammed a vessel two days before in the Alberni
Canal and was laid up). |
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073 |
Estevan Point truck with mattress in the back. Passengers
rode on the mattress to and from the landing at Hesquiat. |
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074 |
A group with a visiting priest at Hesquiat. The priest may
be Father Anthony Terhaar who was well known along the coast.
Gene's diary mentions his visit in August 1935. |
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075 |
"Cougar Rock" at Homis, an old native village somewhat to the
north of Estevan Point. |
