Race Rocks Lightstation 251 Race Rocks Lightstation.  This light marked the end of the Juan de Fuca Strait for east bound vessels.  Race Rocks is south of Victoria, B.C., more or less the southern extremity of Vancouver Island.
Powerhouse at Estevan soon after completion. 252 Estevan Point power house soon after completion, I figure, since the floors are clean and there are no storage shelves or maintenance bits and pieces lying about.  See photo 370 for a view from the far wall.
Album page. 253 Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site.
Station winchman at his post. 254 Winch man.  Cable almost all the way out--not a good idea.  Back of photo is 255.
Reverse side of photo 254. 255 Reverse of 254.  "This speaks for itself sometimes.  LWS"  Addressed to E.J.Haughton (Radio Superintendent) from L.W.Stephenson, Radio Engineer, October 12, 1912.
Cape Lazo spark transmitter high tension room. March 30, 1911. 256 Transmitter high tension room.  Cape Lazo, March 30, 1911.  Reverse is 257
Back of photo 256. 257 See 256
Aerial view of Digby Island station. 258 Digby Island radio site sitting on the hill to the left.  Department of Marine buildings in the distance.
Walter Lambert with a lady, perhaps the Mrs. L. 259 Mr. Walter Lambert.  In 1925 he became the first instructor of Room 19,  King Edward High School, in Vancouver.  This course turned out many radio operators over the years.
Walter Lambert in uniform. 260 Mr. Walter Lambert in uniform.  See 268 for reverse inscription.
Unknown radio station operations. 261 Unknown radio operations site but serves as an excellent photograph of a typical wireless coast station of the 1910-15 period.    Motor/generator and capacitor bank under the table.  High voltage transformer and output coil on top with the rotary spark gap between them.  Aerial loading coil mounted on the wall above transmitter.  Marconi 107a tuner (crystal receiver) at right center.  See Technical section for an explanation how all this worked.
Removed  262 Duplicate
Removed  263 Duplicate.
Merry Island. 264 Merry Island light house had a radio station for a short period.  There was a lot of vessel traffic northwards in the Gulf of Georgia from Vancouver Harbour and this station was put in place to provide coverage in that area.
Merry Island. 265 Merry Island is about 50 miles north of Vancouver, on the mainland side of the Gulf of Georgia.
Merry Island page. 266 Merry Island page.
Merry Island antenna mast. 267 Radio Mast at Merry Island
Reverse of photo 260. Horace quotation in Latin. 268 Reverse of 260.  Latin quote from the Roman writer "Horace".
Album page. 269 Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site.
Album page. 270 Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site.
Four lads, top right most likely Bowerman. 271 Four fine lads.  Could be radio operators, as that looks like a bearded Bowerman on the top right.  Might be Barrington Passage.
Operations building somewhere. 272 Duplicate of 054.  Old Point Grey operations building.
Radio operations desk, unknown location. 273 Unknown radio operations desk.  English Marconi Multiple Tuner on the right and what may be a Marconi 107a tuner on the left.
Tender 'Estevan', perhaps at Bull Harbour entrance. 274 Lighthouse/Buoy tender Estevan.  Location looks like photo taken at Bull Harbour, looking south westward.
Motley crew. 275 Motley crew.  For a change, there are no double barreled shotguns in evidence.
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