Lofty at Estevan Wireless in 1918.
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     "Lofty" Harris was born in Nova Scotia in 1893.  He started his career at Victoria Wireless in February of 1912.  In March of that year he was posted to Deadtree Wireless in the Queen Charlotte Islands.  Eventually he pounded brass at almost all the stations along the coast at some time or another.  He spent the latter part of his career installing aeronautical radio ranges in British Columbia.

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Sweeping view of residences at Triangle Island in 1914. 001 1914 view of Triangle Island's residences from the light tower.  Nearest building is the wireless operator's residence and beyond that, the wireless transmitter/operations building.
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Lofty's radio certificate exam results from Ottawa. 005 A letter with the results of Lofty's radio certificate examinations.  He didn't do too well on the traffic handling portion, but that section of the exam was based more on procedures whereas the other areas were more cut and dried.  He wasn't the first to have difficulty there.
On the reverse were details on where to re-sit the examination.  See 006 below.
Reverse of exam letter giving address of radio school for re-sitting exam. 006 Place of examination.  Hughes Bros Radio School, N.E. Cor. Main and Hastings St. (upstairs), Vancouver, BC
First Exam after Convention of 1912.
Lofty's First Class Certificate issued in 1955.  007 Lofty's First Class Certificate issued in 1955.  He would have been 62 at the time.
Second page of Lofty's First Class Certificate issued in 1955. 008 Second page of Lofty's First Class Certificate issued in 1955.
Album page of the two Triangle Island spark transmitters in July 1914. 009 Hand written note under left photo: "Triangle Isd. Transmitter gear July 1915"
Printed note next to right photo: "After Herb Dawe Installed Synch. Rotary Gaps."
Photos are shown below as 11 & 12.  Page shown for context.
Album page showing SS Prince Rupert ashore and one of Digbey Marine Base. 010 Page shown for context.  Individual photos are shown below.
Triangle Island's spark transmitter in 1914. 011 Triangle Island's spark transmitter in July 1915.  Synchronous park gap is mounted on the end of the belt driven generator.  High voltage transformer and capacitor bank on the floor behind.  Tuning inductor and coupling transformer mounted on the wall.  The horizontal item containing two bars and a slider, mounted below the two big boxes on the wall, is a variable inductance.  Each bar is an insulated core with wound with wire on its surface.  Used for fine tuning the transmitter frequency--the electrical characteristics of the antenna determines the transmitter frequency. Belt and pulley visible on right hand end of generator. The belt would have gone to a similar, but larger diameter, pulley on the Fairbanks-Morse engine.
Another spark transmitter at Triangle Island in 1914. 012 Triangle must have had two transmitters as this one is located in a different spot than the photo above.  See Bowerman's photo 277 to see the drive belts in place.
1914 view of the Government Marine station across the bay from Digby Wireless Station. 013 "Digby Island Marine Station, 1914"  This would be the view from the wireless station.  The marine station looked after the local navigational aids.
SS Prince Prince Rupert ashore on Genn Island. 014 "SS Prince Prince Rupert ashore on Genn Island.  Salvage Queen (ex 'Tees') astern."
SS Prince Prince Rupert ashore on Genn Island. 015 SS Prince Prince Rupert ashore on Genn Island.
SS Prince Prince Rupert ashore on Genn Island. 016 SS Prince Prince Rupert ashore on Genn Island. From the series of photos it appears these three photos were taken on a vessel as it passed by the incident.  Vessel went ashore on March 23, 1917.  See also photo 67 for the fourth photo in this series.
Album page showing two photos, one of Pachena fog alarm building and one of the Bamfield Cable station.  017 Page shown for context.  Individual photos are shown below.  Pachena landing above and Bamfield Cable station below.
 
Album page showing two photos of Pachena station. 018 Page shown for context.  Individual photos are shown below.  Views of Pachena Point Light & Wireless Station.
 
Pachena Light & Wireless station landing.   019 Pachena Light & Wireless station landing. 
Bamfield Cable Station.  020 Bamfield Cable Station.  From here an underwater cable went to Fanning Island, and thence to Australia.  Signals were sent through the wire by making and breaking a current in a Morse Code fashion. Similar cables spanned the Atlantic and up to the time of wireless, this was the only quick method of communication between continents.
Pachena Wireless Operations building.  021 Wireless operations building at Pachena.  Photo 022 is taken from the porch of this building, looking back at the light tower. 
Pachena Light Station  022 View of Pachena Light Station, taken from the Wireless building 
Digby Wireless as seen from the harbour. 023 View of the Digby Station as seen from the ocean.  "Digby Island, Prince Rupert, BC.  June 1913 to Feb. 1914"
024 "Dead Tree Point BC March 1912-May 1913."  "Photo taken by Ed Ashton."
Album page of 1912 Queen Charlotte City area. 025 Album page showing 1912 photos of the Queen Charlotte City area.  Skidegate was a few miles to the east.