Jack Bowerman on the steps of the Point Grey station.
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276      Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia, operations building.  The station operated from 1918 to 1922.  Michael Christie looked at the photos on this site and identified the ones belonging to Barrington Passage.  C. R.  Spracklin, an operator at the station, supplied/took this shot of the station taken from one of the masts.
277      Triangle Island spark transmitter high tension room.  Harris photo 011 is the same, except the belts are not yet in place.
278      Could be two operator friends of Jack. 
279      Horse being hoisted at Bird Rocks, St. Lawrence River. 
Stringing long wire antennas.  Middle tree has a man half way up. 280      Stringing long wire antennas.  Middle tree has a man half way up.
281      "Moff" who ever he may be.  Moff appears in a number of photographs. 
282      "Tom and his cats."  There is some thought it might be Tom Morrison, future Marine Department Agent.
283      500 Watt Transmitters at Anyox BC.  Anox was a huge Cominco smelter up the BC coast next to Alaska. 
284      Triple Island lightstation, west of Prince Rupert, BC. 
285      Cape St. James lightstation,  southern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands.  During World War 2 the RCAF had a radio station located here.
286      Spring Island LORAN Station.  Installed by US Coast Guard during WW2.  Location is roughly 2/3 the way up the west coast of Vancouver Island.  Note the horizontal dipole antenna suspended between the two masts.  Frequency was around 1800 kHz.   LORAN was a pulsed navigation system composed of at least three synchronized transmitting stations located some 100-200 miles apart.  Spring Island worked with a station in Alaska and one in Washington.
287      Marine Radio Beacon.  Installed from 1930 onwards.  Front panel image from the equipment manual here. 
288      Reverse of photo 287. 
289      Control Panel for the 287 Beacon.  Radio Beacon shared its frequency with a couple of others in the vicinity.  Each beacon transmitted individually in its own time slot, sequentially with the others.  Thus a vessel could get 2 or 3 DF bearings in fairly quick order without retuning its receiver.   Similar systems were in use up until the late 1980's.
290      Back of 289. 
291      Amateur tube transmitter?  QST magazine on desk.  If the 6HM card is a ham's call sign then check this link out. The same link mentions Colin Kennedy, an operator on our coast who eventually moved to California.
292      Close up of 291.  Looks like an early attempt at a very high frequency radio transmitter.
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294      Bowerman arriving at Digby Island, early 1914, with his raincoat slung over his arm.   "Paddy the dog" checking him out.  "Paddy" has his own labeled photo in one of the albums and has thus been quite helpful in identifying pictures taken at Digby Island.
295      Estevan Radio switch board.  Typical spark transmitter controls.
296      Estevan Point Wireless cooling towers and fuel tanks.  These towers radiated the heat from the generator engine coolant.
297      Old Estevan Point Wireless Operations building.  Most likely taken from the light tower.  (Compare with Aitkens photo 010).
298      Cape Lazo Station 1914.
299      Could be Digby Island.  Mast in the background.  Dog appears to be the one in 294. 
300      Album page shown for photo context.