Digby Island is opposite present day Prince Rupert, British Columbia.  In those days Prince Rupert itself was very small, awaiting the boom the railroad construction would provide.  Outside communications for the area was only by coastal steamer.  The construction of the wireless station would provide quicker communications than the mail carried by the coastal steamers.
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1906	Cecil Doutre, Dominion Superintendent of Wireless Stations for the Department of Marine and Fisheries, and Eddie Hughes, Project Engineer, sail on the Marine & Fisheries Vessel 'Quadra'. They make site selections for the new chain of wireless stations along the British Columbia west coast.  Digby Island was one of the selected sites.
1910	(Expected to be on the air within a fortnight of March 23, 1910 according to clipping #23, which has somehow gone off into the bit bucket--I'll find it and post it again.)  A. Lawton records station on air in June.  Call sign PGD
1011	Census lists James Harker and Reg Harris as operators.
1913	Call sign changed to VAJ
	Jim Harker and Harold Tee worked 12 hours on, 12 hours off for 3 months at some period on this station.  Harker figures his pay was 28 cents an hour during this slog.
1914	Operator Bowerman arrives up from Alert Bay Wireless and stays until the fall of 1917.
1917	Syd Elliott was an operator sometime during WW 1.  Remembers having to dismantle the station and hide the equipment.
1923	Operator Sid Jones arrives up from Alert Bay to relieve a vacationing Sid Jackson.