| Fee Fee was a 1918 operator at Alert Bay. Somehow he got enough Alert Bay musicians together and had a dance band band. |
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| Field, J. H. Field was hired in February 1908 to take over the OIC’s duties at Point Grey in February 1908, relieving Morse. He did not stay long as he resigned late in the year 1908 and was replaced by L. James. |
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| Findlay, Robert Finlay worked as a labourer at Estevan in 1935 and 1936.---(BCD*) |
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| Fish, Bert Bert was the son of Thomas Fish, the keeper at the Nootka Light Station (next light station to the north of Estevan Point) in the 1930's. In June 1933 Gene & Chas Aitkens visited his lightstation. |
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| Foote, Cecil Radio operator on the S.S. 'Maquinna' when Gene Aitkens made a trip in August 1936. |
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| Franklin, W. F. Franklin was the Lighthouse keeper on Merry Island when operator radio operator on the station, Gerald Pike, met with his fatal accident in 1928. See the newspaper clipping here. |
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Fraser, B. H. Assistant Chief Engineer of the Marine Department (unknown whether his title refers to the Ottawa or Victoria office) makes tour of the aids to navigation on the coast in May 1909 with Captain Gaudin and do the site selection for Triangle Island. |
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| Fricker, Reginald Harold Larry Reid's book has him down as an operator in November 05, 1923. In 1930 he and Basil Irvine patented a method of controlling radio interference. See Irvine's listing for the details. "Nancy met her future husband, Reginald Fricker in London. He had served in the Navy as a Telegraphist during the 1914 - 1918 war. They married and left England in the early 1920s. First to Winnipeg and then to Vancouver Island where Reg was employed at the Marine Radio Station controlling ship movements through the "graveyard" of the Pacific, as it was known to seafarers. Eventually with their two children they stayed many years living a very quiet and self-resourceful existence, supplies being brought in by sea 2 or 3 times a year. It was said that Nancy walked across the island occasionally to fetch her post, etc, and always carried a gun, having apparently become a good shot, as there were many bears and other predators about in those times. Here they remained until 1939 when the family returned to Britain." Copied from the "Marlpit", the community newspaper for Coltishall, Horstead, and Great Houtbois--Norfolk England. |
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Gaudin, Capt. James He was the west coast Agent for the Dominion's
Department of Marine and Fisheries in the early 1900's. |
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| Gilbert, George He was out on the coast in 1909 on HMS Shearwater, and when he was discharged from the Royal Navy, made his way back to British Columbia. He joined the Canadian Naval Service-Telegraph Branch in 1920 and eventually transferred to the Department of Transport. Larry Reid's book has him listed as a 'radio electrician' with the Radio Workshop in Esquimalt on November 05, 1923. Gilbert carried out, with Stephenson and J.D. Taylor, the installation and calibration of the new Pachena Direction Finding Station in 1922. Gilbert was a very capable technician, for instance he read an early article on crystal oscillators, and so made his own crystals and modified some of the west coast transmitters. Using the piezo effect of quartz crystals is a method of providing a very stable (in frequency) transmitted signal. Up to that time the methods used were subject to the effects of wind and rain on the antennas, the equipment room temperature, and a host of other small, but significant when added together, effects. He retired in 1952. |
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Gilliland, T. Gordon The 1938 and 1939 BCD* list Gord as an operator at Estevan Point. Gilliland was the OIC at Bull Harbour for seven years after Carl Ward transferred out. Gilliland moved down to the Point Grey station after Bull Harbour. |
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| Glass, Bob Glass was an operator at Estevan Point in June 1942 when the station was shelled by a Japanese submarine. He retired in late 1960's as the chief flight check technician in the Pacific region of the Ministry of Transport. |
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| Gold, Sam I. Larry Reid's book has him listed on November 05, 1923 as an operator. Operator at Point Grey in the 1920-23 period. He was an early (after 1922) operator at the Pachena DF Station. He appears at Estevan in the 1934 directory listing.---(BCD*) Sammy Gold was Marine OIC at the Garden City road transmitter building while Al Miller was a tech at the Vancouver Airport 1948 to 1952. |
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| Gray, Cecil Radio operator arrived at Estevan Point on August 04, 1933. Wife's name was Betty-Lou. Cecil is listed as an operator at Estevan in the period 1934 through to 1937.---(BCD*) |
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| Gray, Andy 1911 census lists Gray as an operator, born in Scotland in 1888. Likely from the British Post Office. Operator at Estevan Point in 1918 (B.C. Dir.) Larry Reid's book has him listed as a Victoria radio inspector on November 05, 1923. Andy was officer in charge of the monitoring station (same building as the wireless station) at Point Grey during WW2. When Jack Bowerman retired in 1951, Andy took over Jack's duties. Andy retired in 1953. |
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| Gray, Gifford Joined the wireless service in the 1912, most likely from the British Post Office, and served on many of the wireless stations. In 1925 he went to Winnipeg to open a Department of Transport District office. He held the position of District Superintendent of Radio until his retirement on October 17, 1950 with 38 years' of service with the Radio Branch of the Dominion Government. Larry Reid's book has him listed as a radio inspector in Winnipeg on November 05, 1923. |
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| Grayson, H. V. Grayson is listed as an operator at Bull Harbour in the 1932 BCD*. |
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| Greer, Joseph Dickenson Triangle Island Station was opened late in the year 1909 with Greer as OIC. In 1910 he was receiving $95 per month as salary. 1911 census has Greer (b.1875 in Australia) on station with his wife Edith and 5 month old son Jack. Greer died in 1936. |
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Green, Arthur Ashdown  Green was the operator on duty at Triangle Island when the last message from the foundering FPV "Galiano" was received. Vessel vanished with all hands in November 1918 on a trip from Triangle Island Wireless to Ikeda Wireless. He also appears in a photo taken at Point Grey Wireless many years later. |
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| Griffin Joined the wireless service in the 1911-12 period, most likely from the British Post Office. |
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