Jack on the steps of Point Grey operations building.

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051      Photo is unlabelled but appears to be the SS Prince Rupert hard aground on Genn Island, near Prince Rupert BC March 23, 1917.  Jack was at Digby Island at this time and had a small boat.  He most likely went around and took this photo.
052 British Columbia Museum Photo--SS Prince Rupert aground.     Comparison photo of the SS Prince Rupert from the Maritime Museum of BC.  Arrows on Bowerman photo show points of similarity.
053      Radio operators at Triangle Island painting their dwelling.  From the left are Jack Bowerman, Harold Tee, and Jack Berry.
054      Old Point Grey Wireless operations building in 1921.  Jack Bowerman on the left, and it looks like operator Parkin on the right.  Jack was the Officer in Charge of this station from 1920 to 1923.  In 1923 he was transferred to Estevan Point Wireless.
055      Duplicate of 047
056      Jack notes in his history that some of the stations had well kept gardens.  This photo is verified as the OIC's house at Pachena, sometime before 1948.  Thanks to Jon H. for the I.D.
057       Album page.  Applicable photos have been scanned and posted elsewhere on this web site. 
058      Jack Bowerman with oil can and a stopped engine. 
059      Estevan Point Light and Radio Station.  Radio mast is visible to the right of the tower.  The actual station building is out of the photo to the right.  Fog alarm (horn) building to the left of the tower. 
060      Bowerman in the centre of the group.  Unknown location, but the three subjects, in the same clothes, are seen just around the corner of the building in photo 172.  Photo 138 appears to be the same location with the addition of two other men.  I suspect the location is Digby Island.
061      The "Goddard Family" this photo's inscription advises.  Jack Bowerman sitting with hands clasped on his knee.  Location is unknown but from the construction of the house (hinged windows) and the number of people it doesn't appear to be on a station.
062      It was thought operator could be sitting at Triangle Island, but the layout doesn't agree with the photo in Larry Reid's book "The Story of the West Coast Radio Service".  I feel it may be, perhaps at a different time, as the photo comes from an album page 014, which contains four photos, three of which are obviously Triangle.  Thus there is some thought the photo may be indeed be Triangle's operating position.  It certainly looks like Harold Tees with the cans on his head.  Rotary spark transmitter motor operating controls on the left and his receiver on the desk at his elbow.  Thin fuse wire is visible between the knife switches and the studs below.
  063      Removed--Duplicate with 002.
064      During World War 1 the operators were drafted into the Navy. 
065      Triangle Island beach scene.  Pyramid shaped rocks in the back ground are the tip off.
066      This man most likely Mr. Davis, the light keeper at Triangle Island when Jack was operating there during 1912 to 1914.  Seal skin and shot gun in evidence.
067      Jack Bowerman on a train platform. 
068      Department of Transport brass at (now Victoria YYJ) airport.  Date is probably c1940 as evidenced by the cars visible in the distance.  Photo 047 was taken at the same time, the only difference being the right hand person has swapped out to take the photo.  The chap with the aviator sun glasses is probably the pilot.  Next to him is Stevenson and I suspect the middle person is Walter Rush, Ottawa MoT brass.
069      Photo 069 & 070 are labeled as Estevan Light and Weather Station.  The poured concrete tower, re-enforced with flying buttresses, was built with ingenuity and muscle power alone.
070      The rotating Fresnel lens was about 6 feet high and about 5 feet in diameter.  Rotation was accomplished by a clockwork mechanism, driven by a weight that descended down the centre of the tower.  The lens assembly floated on a bathtub of mercury to provide a frictionless bearing.  Lightkeeper was required to wind the weights several times in a 24 hour period as the mechanism had no motor.  I've heard the keepers would sleep at the base of the tower so that the slowly descending weight would land on his bed and wake him up.
071      Pachena Point radio direction finding station.  Loops have been drawn in on the original to make them visible.  The hut underneath the centre of the loops housed the receiving apparatus.
072      Another view of Pachena Point.  DF station was built 1922.
073      Another photo of Pachena Point radio direction finding station view, showing the antenna loops.
074      Construction at Pachena Point.
075      Clearing at Pachena Point.