| 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. Gonzales Hill in Victoria was one of the selected sites. |
| 1907 | July 27 edition of the Daily Colonist reports: "John Taylor
has a similar contract for the building of the station on Shotbolt’s
hill in this city." Construction and installation of the station. Main
equipment was a Fairbanks-Morse 3 Horse Power gasoline engine,
driving a 1,000 Watt alternating current generator. The
transmitter was the Shoemaker type, with the open core transformer,
tubular glass condensers, fixed spark gap with the inductance coil
helix. A crystal detector radio receiver rounded out the
installation. 150 foot wooden mast. Late in the year (Oct 22 ref A.Lawton) the station opens with Eddie Haugton as station manager. Call sign VSD. Newspaper notes station is exchanging test messages with Point Grey on November 20, 1907. The November 24 Colonist paper reports the five original stations will be open for business on December 15, 2007. |
| Station moves from Gonzales Hill, Victoria out to Gordon Head, some 15 km northward. Gonzales area was getting built up, and the Gordon Head area was then a farming area. | |
| 1967 | Station moves from Gordon Head area of Victoria to Sooke, approximately 40 km to the west. Moving was again necessitated by the expansion of Victoria's residential areas out into Gordon Head. Sooke's transmitter site was further along the coast at Sheringham Point lightstation. |
