Jack kept a scrap book (pages much yellowed--same colour as this background) of newspaper clippings and the like, all related to his wireless job or that of his friends in the field.  I've also added one clipping from Chas
Aitkens material--#22.

     Victoria newspaper accounts from the period are to be found here. 

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Clipping #1.  This two page type written memorandum contains a couple of short newspaper articles lauding the ability of Estevan Point Wireless Station to reach out to record distances, communicating with vessels sailing to New Zealand and Australia.

Clipping #2.  Harold Tee retiring.  Harold was with Jack in 1913 on Triangle Island.  This is something I copied from a note in the scrap book and gives a brief history of Tee's career.  See also clipping #6 below.

Clipping #3.  Cecil Clark, of the Victoria newspaper "The Daily Colonist", wrote on popular local history.  This document is from 1963 where he interviews four wireless operators about their Triangle Island experiences.

Clipping #4.  Schooner Noble comes to grief around the Escalante Reefs.  January 08, 1928.

Clipping #5.    (File is 1 MB in size.)  November 15, 1934.  Jack became the Radio Inspector for British Columbia in 1925.  At one time the public owners of entertainment radios were required to license their receivers annually.  The fee was around $2.00.  Part of Jack's duties were to prosecute those who didn't pay their annual fee.  Many home handymen went to great lengths to hide or disguise their receivers.  One old inspector told me of finding a radio's loop antenna cleverly wound around the. frame a living room door.  A wire antenna strung outside the house would be a dead give away of a receiver inside.  The fee was generally despised by all and sundry, and a thankless enforcement task for Jack.  The fee requirement ended sometime in the early 1940's, I think.

Clipping #6.  Harold Tee was a fellow operator on Triangle Island in 1912-14.  Tee went on to eventually retire as the District Superintendent of Radio for Saskatchewan. 

Clipping #7 & Clipping #8.  A small radio station was established in 1924 at Merry Island Light Station (off Sechelt, north of Vancouver) to monitor the shipping in the area.  The operator, Gerald Pike, accidentally killed himself and these clippings relate the sad story.  March 22, 1926 was the fateful day.

Clipping #9.  Walter Lambert appears in a number of Jack's photos, but this clipping relates to his hobby of rowing across the local straits.   Lambert was a radio operator and eventually helped create the radio operator's course at King Edward High School in Vancouver, BC.  See Lambert in uniform in photo 260 or at the black board in photo 353.

Clipping #10.  A letter to a prairie newspaper complaining about the amount of interference on his receiver.  The writer paid almost a month's salary for the receiver and certainly isn't getting their money's worth.  Interference from other radios, appliances, machinery and the like was a big headache in the early years.

Clipping #11.  Yet another letter of complaint to the local newspaper, this time from Vancouver, BC, concerning radio users who cannot operate their receivers properly.  In our time we may wonder about that statement, but back then a popular receiver the "regenerative receiver".  It was a simple, inexpensive, and sensitive single vacuum tube receiver.  If not adjusted correctly it would turn into a miniature radio transmitter and create havoc to other radio listeners in the vicinity.  The word 'bloopers' in the clipping refers to the sound of the interference.

Clipping #12.  A note from a British newspaper about a 'local boy making good in the colonies'.  The date would be shortly after 1925.

Clipping #13.  The old wireless building on Gonzales Hill to be demolished about 1945.  The 'new' building is now in use by the University of Victoria since the Victoria station moved out to Sooke in 1967 to get away from the creeping urbanization.

Clipping #14.  January is a bad time of year to be up the west coast of Vancouver Island in a small boat.  1928 was no different.  Estevan Wireless gets the word out to Victoria.

Clipping #15.  Mr. E. (Eddie) J. Haughton was the Superintendent of the Department of Transport's Radio branch here in BC.  He had been in that capacity since 1912 and had thus overseen the building up of the wireless stations and infrastructure along the coast.  Haughton retired in December 1938 and Jack Bowerman succeeded him.  Unfortunately Haughton's retirement was short, within two years he was dead.

Clipping #16.  Mr. E. J. Haughton reminisces on his career.

Clipping #17.  Wireless operator Tommy Raine retires after 27 years of pounding brass.  Tommy started out in 1911 as an operator in the then wilderness at Point Grey.  He and his wife lived in a tent on the grounds for a year awaiting accommodation.  Clipping is undated but is most likely 1938.

Clipping #18.  Another news item or two about Jack Bowerman's retirement.  An interesting aside is a portion quoting a sneering American gangster "Lucky Luciano".

Clipping #19.  George Gilbert retires as a wireless technician in a clipping dated August 1952.  Gilbert joined in 1919, from the Royal Navy, as a wireless technician and was a bit of a tinkerer--always trying something new.  He appears in several of the Bowerman photos such as 428.

Clipping #20.  On July 14, 1939, a Prince Rupert newspaper clipping tells of an upcoming visit by Bowerman, Woods, Stephenson and Lowe.

Clipping #21.  In the late 1930's the operators organized themselves to put some pressure on Ottawa HQ in an effort to improve their working wages and conditions.  This is a clipping from the operator's association's newsletter.

Clipping #22  Chas Aitkens responds to a James K. Nesbit column.  Copied from the October 28, 1969 edition of the Vancouver Sun.