Room 19 turned out radio operators holding First Class Operating Certificates who could hold down a position as an operator on a vessel, among other things.
    Room 19 started out in Vancouver's King Edward High School around 1925 and eventually moved to the Vancouver Technical School.  Course ended some time in the early 1960's.

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1950's view of the instructors, Casey, Duke, Hodgeson and Lawton.     The instructors names, clockwise from the left, as remembered by Gerry Peters:
 
 -  Casey (can't remember his first name) don't know if he was a graduate of  Room 19 - he was English and flew with the RAF, as RO, during WW2. 

 [Des says: My remembrances of room 19 centres around an instructor called Casey. Casey had a little English car and we used to go out at noon and put blocks under the rear axles. Casey never did learn to look, and always had the same shocked expression on his face when he hit the gas pedal and got great noise but little action.]

 -  John Duke -  Head Instructor - Room 19 Graduate - Radio Operator on the RCMP Vessel St Roch.  Don't know if he worked at any coast stations.
 -  Ron Hodgeson- Room 19 graduate - Radio Operator. Ferry command during WW2.  Don't know if he worked at any coast stations. (Ian Morrison remembered first name 11/09)
 -  Lawton  (again can't remember first name) - also believe he was a Room 19 Graduate and believe he served in merchant navy during war.  Not sure if he served at any coast stations.
 
View of the transmitters used for practical work a the school.     Looks like a sampling of marine radio/c.w. transmitters. 
Radio Direction Finder area set up for practice work.     Looks like a set of marine radio direction finders.  The loops would have been fitted at the top of the mast (best place) but more likely on top of the wheel house.
Room 19 wall showing typical equipment schematics.        Typical equipment schematics on the wall.  Students were expected to know the nuts and bolts of how their equipment worked. 

       King George V on the wall.  He died in 1936.
Early view c.1930 of Room 19.    The beginnings of 'Room 19'.  Walter Lambert, was the first instructor in 1926, is the moustachioed instructor way at the back.  About the only things in common over the intervening years are the tables.  The diagrams on the walls, and the equipment have all been changed out to reflect the progress in the technology.