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151 | Could be a duplicate of 122. |
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152 | Looking towards Prince Rupert from the beach at Digby Island. |
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153 | Unknown vessel. |
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154 | Bird Rock, Gulf of St. Lawrence. A wireless system was installed, under Jack's supervision, to provide communications to shore for the Navy observers stationed on the island watching shipping. In Larry Reid's book the station was for direction finding--to get bearings on German vessels. Barrionton Passage was a similar station. |
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155 | Completed building on Bird Rocks. Building is most likely for the radio communications equipment as that was Jack's reason to be there. Date is 1918. Construction is shown in photo XXX |
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156 | Bird Rock then, and in 1996. Thanks to Laval. |
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157 | Bird Rock antenna erection. |
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158 | Bird Rock crew. I assume it is the radio building construction crew. |
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159 | Another view of Bird Rocks. Jack has dated it as 1917, but in his narrative he doesn't leave Digby Island until 1918. |
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160 | Bamfield Cable Station. An undersea cable went from here to Fanning Island and then onto New Zealand. Intelligence was sent through the cable by interrupting a current flow with a keying mechanism responding to Morse/Continental code. With the introduction of radio (wireless) the future of cable systems appeared precarious. The capital cost of thousands of miles of special waterproof wire and the associated infrastructure at each end was enormous and was in danger of being replaced by a fellow with a simple gas engine, receiver, spark transmitter and antenna. |
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161 | Bamfield Lifeboat Station. |
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162 | Staff grouping. Most likely Digby Island--tall lad is Lofty Harris and one of the spaniels is no doubt Paddy. The gentleman in the centre, and the one kneeling, are holding a ring of about 8" in diameter. The rings must be of some significance. |
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163 | Sergeant on the beach. |
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164 | Unknown station. Obviously taken from the top on a radio mast. |
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165 | An interesting photo taken inside a dwelling. Most likely two radio operators enjoying a bit of down time. Photo was taken using the light coming in from a window. |
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166 | Radio shack under construction at Bird Rock. Finished product is photo 155. |
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167 | Walter Lambert went on to have a distinguished career in Vancouver as the first instructor in the new radio communications course. He appears in photos and clippings elsewhere on this site. |
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168 | Triangle Island. Note the tramway slash. 1600 feet long. |
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169 | This could be a photo of the Triangle Island operating position. Note the pin-up. |
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170 | Another radio operating position. The switch gear on the wall was the starting apparatus for the spark transmitter. |
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171 | Dwelling, possibly at Dead Tree Point, QCI. |
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172 | Three lads. The one on the right is Jack Bowerman. Unknown location, but the three subjects, in the same clothes, are seen just around the corner of the building in photo 060. I suspect the location is Digby Island. Photo 138 taken at the same time has a couple of other people in it. |
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173 | Family grouping. The man shows up in a number of photos (ie the wedding) and is easily identifiable by his unique hair parting. There is some thought that his name may be Fred Hollis. |
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174 | Department of Transport brass. I have numbered the men for future identification purposes. |
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175 | Department of Transport radio division in Victoria in the mid 1950's. |