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Digby Island station. 151 Could be a duplicate of 122.
On the beach at Digby, looking towards Prince Rupert. 152 Looking towards Prince Rupert from the beach at Digby Island.
Two photos of an unknown vessel. 153 Unknown vessel.
Bird Rocks view. 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.
Bird Rocks completed building.  Most likely radio operations. 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
Bird Rock from the sea. 156 Bird Rock then, and in 1996.  Thanks to Laval.
Bird Rock antenna erection. 157 Bird Rock antenna erection.
158 Bird Rock crew.  I assume it is the radio building construction crew.
View of Bird Rocks from the sea. 159 Another view of Bird Rocks.  Jack has dated it as 1917, but in his narrative he doesn't leave Digby Island until 1918.
Bamfield Cable Station. 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.
Bamfield Lifeboat station. 161 Bamfield Lifeboat Station.
Family grouping--could be Digby Island. 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.
Sergent on the beach. 163 Sergeant on the beach. 
View of a station taken from the top of a mast.  164 Unknown station.  Obviously taken from the top on a radio mast. 
Two lads, possibly Triangle Island.  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. 
Bird Rock in the St. Lawrence River.  166 Radio shack under construction at Bird Rock.  Finished product is photo 155. 
Walter Lambert.  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.
Triangle Island from the sea.  168 Triangle Island.  Note the tramway slash.  1600 feet long. 
Radio operating position--perhaps Triangle Island.  169 This could be a photo of the Triangle Island operating position.  Note the pin-up. 
  170 Another radio operating position.  The switch gear on the wall was the starting apparatus for the spark transmitter. 
Typical dwelling.  171 Dwelling, possibly at Dead Tree Point, QCI.
Three lads again.  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.
  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.
Department of Transport brass--numbered for identification.  174 Department of Transport brass.  I have numbered the men for future identification purposes. 
Victoria Office Brass and Staff. 175 Department of Transport radio division in Victoria in the mid 1950's.
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