SS Prince Rupert agound on Genn Island 1917. 051 Photo is unlabelled but appears to be the SS Prince Rupert hard aground on Genn Island, near Prince Rupert BC March 23, 1917.  Jack was at Digby Island at this time and had a small boat.  He most likely went around and took this photo.
Marked up 051 photo showing point of similarity. 052 Maritime Museum of BC--SS Prince Rupert aground. Comparison photo of the SS Prince Rupert from the Maritime Museum of BC.  Arrows on Bowerman photo show points of similarity.
Painting the radio operaters dwelling at Triangle Island 1912 053 Radio operators at Triangle Island painting their dwelling.  From the left are Jack Bowerman, Harold Tee, and Jack Berry.
Point Grey (Vancouver) Radio operations building in 1921. 054 Old Point Grey Wireless operations building in 1921.  Jack Bowerman on the left, and it looks like operator Parkin on the right.  Jack was the Officer in Charge of this station from 1920 to 1923.  In 1923 he was transferred to Estevan Point Wireless.
Department of Transport brass at Patricia Bay Airport (YYJ) 055 Duplicate of 047
Garden trellis with lady in front. Could be Pachena Point. 056 Jack records that some of the stations had well kept gardens.  This may be Pachena Point.
Scanned album page. 057 Album page.  Applicable photos have been scanned and posted elsewhere on this web site. 
Jack with oil can and engine. Location could be Pachena Pt. 058 Jack Bowerman with oil can and a stopped engine. 
059 Estevan Point Light and Radio Station.  Radio mast is visible to the right of the tower.  Fog alarm (horn) building to the left of the tower. 
Three lads. Jack is in the middle. 060 Bowerman in the centre of the group.  Unknown location, but the three subjects, in the same clothes, are seen just around the corner of the building in photo 172.  Photo 138 appears to be the same location with the addition of two other men.  I suspect the location is Digby Island.
Goddard family. 061 The "Goddard Family" this photo's inscription advises.  Jack Bowerman sitting with hands clasped on his knee.  Location is unknown but from the construction of the house (hinged windows) and the number of people it doesn't appear to be on a station.
Operator at Triangle Island? position. 062 It was thought operator could be sitting at Triangle Island, but the layout doesn't agree with the photo in Larry Reid's book "The Story of the West Coast Radio Service".  I feel it may be, perhaps at a different time, as the photo comes from an album page 014, which contains four photos, three are obviously Triangle.  Thus there is some thought the photo may be indeed be Triangle's operating position.  It certainly looks like Harold Tees with the cans on his head.  Rotary spark transmitter motor operating controls on the left and his receiver on the desk at his elbow.  Thin fuse wire is visible between the knife switches and the studs below.
  063 --Removed--Duplicate with 002.
Three lads turned out in their Naval uniforms. WW 1 064 During World War 1 the operators were drafted into the Navy. 
Looks like a Triangle Island beach scene.  065 Triangle Island beach scene.  Pyramid shaped rocks in the back ground are the tip off.
Could be Mr.Davis, the light keeper at Triangle Island.  066  This man most likely Mr. Davis, the light keeper at Triangle Island when Jack was operating there during 1912 to 1914.  Seal skin and shot gun in evidence.
Jack at a rail road station.  067 Jack Bowerman on a train platform. 
Department of Transport brass at Patricia Bay Airport (YYJ)  068 Department of Transport brass at (now Victoria YYJ) airport.  Date is probably c1940 as evidenced by the cars visible in the distance.  Photo 047 was taken at the same time, the only difference being the right hand person has swapped out to take the photo.  The chap with the aviator sun glasses is probably the pilot.  Next to him is Stevenson and I suspect the middle person is Walter Rush, Ottawa MoT brass.
  069 Photo 069 & 070 are labeled as Estevan Light and Weather Station.  The poured concrete tower, re-enforced with flying buttresses, was built with ingenuity and muscle power alone.
  070 The rotating Fresnel lens was about 6 feet high and about 5 feet in diameter.  Rotation was accomplished by a clockwork mechanism, driven by a weight that descended down the centre of the tower.  The lens assembly floated on a bathtub of mercury to provide a frictionless bearing.  Lightkeeper was required to wind the weights several times in a 24 hour period as the mechanism had no motor.  I've heard the keepers would sleep at the base of the tower so that the slowly descending weight would land on his bed and wake him up.
  071 Pachena Point radio direction finding station.  Loops have been drawn in on the original to make them visible.  The hut underneath the centre of the loops housed the receiving apparatus.
  072 Another view of Pachena Point.  DF station was built 1922.
  073 Another photo of Pachena Point radio direction finding station view, showing the antenna loops.
  074 Construction at Pachena Point.
  075 Clearing at Pachena Point.
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