1911	Station commissioned (February according to A.Lawton).  Walter Howard is operator in charge and appears in the 1911 Census.  Call sign DTD
1913	Call sign changed from DTD to VAH
1958	The station was removed from Dead Tree and moved across the inlet to Sandspit Airport.  In the summer of 1967 Jack Fraser was the OIC.  Station consisted of three operating positions, Marine, ICAO and Aeradio.

    This station was not part of the original plan as configured by Cecil Doutre in 1906.  The inhabitants of the Queen Charlotte Islands wished to have a reliable communications connection with the mainland and petitioned the Federal Government for a wireless station.  Dead Tree was the result.  Banner photo is from the 1940's.
     Dead Tree was eventually co-located across the inlet to the airport operation at Sandspit.  The Sandspit station had three operating positions--a marine phone/CW, ICAO, and aeradio.  By 1967 the ICAO had been decommissioned.  In the 1970's the marine position had been also decommissioned and replaced by mountain top VHF maritime mobile radios dotted in the mountains on the islands.  The mountain top sites were monitored by Prince Rupert Radio via microwave.
     If you have Google Earth on your computer, see Dead Tree's location approximate location here.