1909	Construction starts in September (Colonist paper).  Station on the air in November (ref A.Lawton).
1910	Station commissioned.  Call sign AKD (DKD?).  A.F.Whiteside as OIC.  Tallest mast on the west coast at 228 feet.
1911	1911 Census lists Ronald Dundas and Charles McIntyre as operators earning $900 per annum.
1913	Call sign changed to VAB from AKD
1920	The September 15th edition of the Victoria Daily Times newspaper lists Ikeda for the final time in the "Station Weather Reports" listing.   Ikeda's equipment was removed over the next few months to the new station at Bull Harbour, Hope Island.  Bull Harbour was built to replace Triangle Island Wireless.

   The Ikeda Wireless Station seems to have served two purposes.  One was to act as the intermediate station between Digby Island and Triangle Island.  Stations at that time had about a 75 km range.  The second reason was to supply communications for the Ikeda copper mine.  The station is actually built at Skeeda Point, the entrance to the bay.
    Arichika Ikeda was a Japanese fisherman who spent time working along the British Columbia coast, far from his homeland.  In 1898 he found a copper ore body in this cove, staked it, and by 1906 production was in full swing.  The ore body was not large and by 1909 most of the easily obtainable material had been removed.  By 1920 any mine activity had petered out.

    I've not been able to identify any photos as Ikeda.  Station information is very sketchy.

     Google Earth location here.