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076 |
Pachena Point loading area. Lighthouse tender's workboat is
being hoisted on the wireline. Many of the stations were
located on cliffs so the only convenient method of getting materials and
supplies up to the station was via an overhead hoist travelling on a
wireline. The hoist traveler (type still in use) is a clever device
allowing the hook to drop at the proper point on the line. |
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077 |
Pachena Point loading area with tender's workboat and crew. |
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078 |
Pachena Point landing area. |
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079 |
Home made post card of the Estevan Point crew dated May 1913.
Most likely three of the radio operators. Card is addressed to the
Wireless Station at Triangle Island. I've stuck the reverse of
the card (085) along the bottom. Operator Hollis and daughter on the
right. Jack Bowerman had recently left Estevan and gone onto
Triangle Island. |
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080 |
Rear of post card 082. "One of the reasons why VAH is
difficult to staff these days" "This is not by your camera, its a Kodak
& not in focus" "Jack" VAH
was the call sign of Dead Tree Point in the Queen Charlottes. The
station was commissioned in 1912. |
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082 |
Group of women and one man at Dead Tree Point call sign VAH. The
gent looks suspiciously like Jack Berry. Jack went to Dead Tree sometime after his stint at Triangle ended in 1913. Jack was
married with two sons and a daughter, so the lad may be one of his sons.
The call sign VAH was issued to the station in 1913. |
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Rear of photo 079. Dated May 20, 1913 Estevan Point and
addressed to Jack Bowerman on Triangle Island. |
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086 |
Wedding photo. The chap in the middle without a hat appears to
be operator Fred Hollis and his daughter is sitting in the front. He
and his daughter appear in several photos throughout this site. |
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087 |
087 & 088 are a pair. Workboat unloading supplies at Hesquiat. Note
truck has missing left front fender and a spot light mounted on roof.
This enabled driver to navigate the plank road to the station in the dark. See similar
photo in "Keepers of the Light" pg 229 by Don Graham, Harbour
Publishing. |
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088 |
Federal Government's lighthouse tender 'Estevan'
off Hesquiat. Built in Collingwood Ontario in
1912 and was decommissioned in 1971. Triple expansion steam engines. |
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089 |
Group on a porch somewhere. |
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090 |
Entrance to Bull Harbour operations building in late 1940's. On the
left is the station OIC Gord Gilliland, middle is radio technician Sid
Woods and the person on the right is unknown. |
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091 |
This shows, most likely, the tramway down to the Digby Wireless Station's
dock. Coastal steamer in the distance. Jack Bowerman was at this station 1914-16. |
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092 |
Canadian Marconi 1000 watt amplitude modulated broadcast
transmitter. Sales brochure photo from the looks of it.. |
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093 |
Photo of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King making the first
Canadian coast to coast broadcast
from outside the Parliament buildings, Ottawa. |
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094 |
C. P. Edwards (appointed Controller for the Government Radio Service
in 1909) is on right.
I've read the original document outlining the method of making all the
connections across Canada and monitoring the connections. I'm
thinking this photo shows the control point for coordinating all these
connections. Look at the number of candle stick phones, all labeled. |
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095 |
Margaret Bay, BC. Cannery. Most likely had a radiophone
installation. Photo may have been taken on an inspection trip.
N51 20' 00" W127 29' 00" |
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Large card with three photos. Photos are 076 to 078 at the top
of this page. |
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097 |
Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site. |
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098 |
Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on
site. |
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099 |
Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site. |
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Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site. |
