Year	Bowerman's Location	Coast Station Activities
1886	March 01--born in Basingstoke, England
1906		Pacific Wireless opens their Gonzales Hill (Victoria) Station.  Point Grey, Cape Lazo, Gonzales are chosen for Government Coast Station locations.
1907		In the summer Estevan and Pachena are confirmed as locatons.  Site construction at Estevan Point, Cape Lazo, Pachena Point and Gonzales/Victoria.
1908		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 Digby and Ikeda 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.  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 is replaced by a diesel to supply power to the new 2 kW transmitter.
1913	at Triangle Island	Alert Bay Radio on the air in the spring.
1914	In the spring Jack transfers to Alert Bay, and later in the year moves to Digby Island.
1915	at Digby Island
1916	at Digby Island    (Jack is 30 years old.)
1917	at Digby Island
1918	In the early spring, Jack transfers to Eastern Canada for WW1 duties.  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 long reach into the Pacific Ocean.
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.
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.
1924	at Estevan Point	New station installed at Merry Island light station.
1925	Jack relocated to Vancouver as the Radio Inspector for B.C.  (Jack is 39 years old.)
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.
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	Silent Key in his 95th year.
1990?		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 via mountain top sites scattered along the British Columbia coastal confluence zone.  Deep sea is via communication satellites. Vessels have a normal telephone number and can be reached by anyone using a home phone.