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076 | Pachena Point loading area. Lighthouse tender's workboat is being hoisted on the wireline. Many of the stations were located on cliffs so the only convenient method of getting materials and supplies up to the station was via an overhead hoist travelling on a wireline. The hoist traveler (still in use) is a clever device allowing the hook to drop at the proper point on the line. |
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077 | Pachena Point loading area with tender's workboat and crew. |
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078 | Pachena Point landing area. |
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079 | Home made post card of the Estevan Point crew dated May 1913. Most likely three of the radio operators. Card is addressed to the Wireless Station at Triangle Island. I've stuck the reverse of the card (085)along the bottom. Operator Hollis and daughter on the right. Jack Bowerman had recently left Estevan and gone onto Triangle Island. |
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080 | Rear of post card 082. "One of the reasons why VAH is difficult to staff these days" "This is not by your camera, its a Kodak & not in focus" "Jack" VAH was the call sign of Dead Tree Point in the Queen Charlottes. The station was commissioned in 1912. Jack was in Estevan 1911-12 and was never at VAH. |
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082 | Group of women, quite likely Dead Tree Point. |
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085 | Rear of photo 079. Dated May 20, 1913 Estevan Point and addressed to Jack Bowerman on Triangle Island. |
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086 | Wedding photo. The chap in the middle without a hat appears to be operator Fred Hollis and his daughter is sitting in the front. He and his daughter appear in several photos throughout this site. |
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087 | 087 & 088 are a pair. Workboat unloading supplies at Hesquiat. Note truck has missing left front fender and spot light mounted on roof. This enabled driver to navigate the plank road when dark. See similar photo in "Keepers of the Light" pg 229. |
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088 | Federal Government's lighthouse tender 'Estevan'. Built in Collingwood Ontario in 1912 and was decommissioned in 1971. Triple expansion steam engines. |
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089 | Unknown group. |
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090 | Entrance to Bull Harbour operations building in late 1940's. On the left is the station OIC Gord Gilliland, middle is radio technician Sid Woods and the person on the right is unknown. |
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091 | This shows the Alert Bay Wireless Station's tramway down to its dock. Coastal steamer in the distance. Jack Bowerman was at this station for a few months in 1914. |
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092 | Canadian Marconi 1000 watt amplitude modulated broadcast transmitter. Sales brochure photo from the looks of it.. |
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093 | Photo of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King making the first Canadian coast to coast broadcast from outside the Parliament buildings, Ottawa. |
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094 | C. P. Edwards (appointed Controller for the Government Radio Service in 1909) is on right. I've read the original document outlining the method of making all the connections across Canada and monitoring the connections. I'm thinking this photo shows the control point for coordinating all these connections. Look at the number of candle stick phones, all labeled. |
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095 | Margaret Bay, BC. Cannery. Most likely had a radiophone installation. Photo may have been taken on an inspection trip. 51 20' 00" 127 29' 00" is the location of Margaret Bay. |
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096 | Large card with three photos. Photos are 076 to 078 at the top of this page. |
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097 | Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site. |
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098 | Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site. |
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099 | Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site. |
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100 | Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site. |
