Time line of Bowerman's and Harris' life vs what was happening on the wireless stations.  Which stations these two operators manned can be gleaned from their notes and photos.

Year Jack Bowerman Coast Station Activities Lofty Harris
1886 March 01--born in Basingstoke, England    
1893     November 9--born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia.
1906   Pacific Wireless opens their Gonzales Hill (Victoria) Station.  Point Grey, Cape Lazo, Gonzales are chosen for Government Coast Station locations.  
1907 Telegraph operator for the British Post Office. In the summer Estevan and Pachena are confirmed as locations.  Site construction at Estevan Point, Cape Lazo, Pachena Point and Gonzales/Victoria.   
1908 Seconded to the Hampshire Yeomanry Regiment as a telegraphist. In early January all the stations, except Cape Lazo, are operational.  Cape Lazo comes on line later in the year.  
1909 Moves from England to Victoria, BC.  Accepts position with United Wireless and eventually- C. P. Edwards, of the Dominion Government Wireless Office, arrives from Ottawa to arrange for the Prince Rupert, Triangle and Queen Charlotte Island coast station locations.  Duplex housing built at Pachena and Estevan Points.  
1910 -gets laid off.  Signed on with a halibut schooner for a few months. Dead Tree Point, Ikeda Head, Triangle Island & Digby Island radio stations are on the air.  Operators are now under the authority of the Naval department and have the rank of Warrant Officers.  C. P. Edwards becomes a Lt. Commander.  
1911 Joins Government Wireless Service on May 11.  Familiarization at Victoria, then posted to Pachena Point for 4 months, then on to Estevan Point.    
1912 Jack transfers to Triangle Island in September. Estevan Point's gasoline engine driven generator is replaced by a diesel to supply power to the new 2 kW transmitter. Lofty' arrives at his first station, Dead Tree, in March.
1913 at Triangle Island Alert Bay Radio on the air in the spring. Transfers out to Digby in June.
1914 In the spring Jack transfers to Alert Bay, and later in the year moves to Digby Island.   Moves down to Alert Bay in February but by March is on Triangle Island.
1915 at Digby Island British government requires all their vessels over 3000 tons to be radio equipped. In August Lofty moves down to Point Grey.
1916 at Digby Island    (Jack is 30 years old.)    
1917 at Digby Island.  In the early spring, Jack transfers to Eastern Canada for WW1 duties.   After two years at Point Grey, Lofty shifts over to Pachena in October for a week or two then is up to Estevan.
1918   This included duties in the Ottawa Workshop; construction and operating at Bird Rocks; at Montreal assisting Pachena Point's traffic has dwindled due to Estevan Point's excellent coverage along the west coast and corresponding long reach into the Pacific Ocean. Leaves Estevan in February 1918 and shifts up to the Ikeda Station.
1919 with ship inspection duties; eight months on the HMT Oceana; several months at Barrington Passage Wireless.  He also spent 3 months at Morley, Alberta installing radios into aircraft. Triangle Lighthouse shut down but Wireless Station stays.  Bull Harbour approved as the new location for Triangle's radio operations. Departs Ikeda August.
1920 Jack reports to Point Grey in October as Officer in Charge. Pachena Point radio closed down . Ikeda shuts down at the end of September.  Its equipment removed for re-installation at a new station, Bull Harbour.  
1921 at Point Grey At the end of June Bull Harbour Radio begins operations.  Triangle Island Radio closes down in June.  
1922 at Point Grey Pachena Point re-opens as a direction finding station.  Estevan transmit power increased to 15 kW with a Navy transmitter.  
1923 Jack transferred to Estevan Point Radio. 2 kW Poulsen Arc Transmitters installed at Alert Bay and Point Grey in '23/'24.  Station in the Merchant's Exchange building in Vancouver installed and operational.  Stations begin upgrading from spark to vacuum tube transmitters. Lofty is in Bull Harbour.  30 years of age.
1924 at Estevan Point New site at Merry Island light station.  Equipment was low power giving coverage in the Sunshine Coast area. Lofty is in Bull Harbour.
1925 Jack relocated to Vancouver as the Radio Inspector for B.C.  (Jack is 39 years old.)   Lofty is in Bull Harbour.
1930     Lofty departs Bull Harbour
1938 Moved to Victoria as the District (BC) Superintendent of Radio, replacing the retiring E.J.Haughton.    
       
1946 July 03--Receives Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his work. Sometime in this era Victoria Radio moves from Gonzales northwards about 10km to the Gordon Head area.  Building turned over the the Cubs/Scouts.  
       
1951 Retires at 65 years of age.    
1958   Pachena Point Radio Station shut down.  
       
    Dead Tree Radio moves to Sandspit, QCI, and is housed with the aeradio station at the airport.  Call sign is VAZ.  
    Estevan Point Radio relocated to Tofino airport and becomes Tofino Coast Guard Radio.  Call sign remains VAE.  
1967   Victoria Radio moves 20km westward to the community of Sooke, BC.  Call sign kept as VAK.  
1978   Tofino Radio moves to Ucluelet and is amalgamated with the Vessel Traffic Radio.  Call sign is still VAE.  
    Low, medium and high frequency coast station traffic falls off due to the proliferation of satellite communication systems fitted into vessels.   
1981 Jack passes away in his 95th year.    
1990's   Victoria Radio (VAK) and Vancouver Radio (VAI) move to Patricia Bay and are amalgamated with Vessel Traffic.  Almost all coastal radio traffic is now carried out on very high frequency (VHF) via line of sight distances from mountain top sites scattered along the British Columbia coastal confluence zone.  Deep sea is via communication satellites. Shipping have a normal telephone number and can be reached by anyone using a home phone.