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.  Estevan Point was one of the selected sites.
1910 Station commissioned with wireless operators J.D. Greer as Officer in Charge and J. Arnold (Sutherland and Greer--according to Bowerman).  Victoria Colonist newspaper has first report from station listed on February 17th.  Call sign TLD.   (A. Lawton says station commissioned in March.)  Lightstation construction report in the July 26, 1910 Colonist news item says the lantern will be installed in 4 to 5 weeks.
1911 All coast stations move to a 24 hour watch.  Operating staff now up to three men.   
1912 In the summer Bowerman arrives and batches with the other two operators, Harold Tee and Jack Berry.  J. Arnold leaves and enlists for the War.  Likely replaced by Jackson.  Operations building is blown off its foundations by an autumn gale.  Roof of operations building blown off in same gale.
1913 Operator Berry transfers out.  Call sign changed from TLD to VAG as per international wireless agreement.
1914 Bowerman transfers out in the spring.  Military guard supplied for the duration of the war to rebuff any German raiding parties.
   
1918 Syd Elliot in his newspaper clipping says Jack Neary and Arthur Green were also operators at this time.  October 1918 the FPV Galiano vanished after leaving the station.  More info on the sinking here.
1919 Decision was made to decommission the wireless station, but not until after a new site is chosen. 
1920 Lightstation decommissioned.  Lantern and housing moved to Victoria lighthouse depot and eventually moved to the Sooke BC Museum as an exhibit.  Buildings eventually blew away.  Concrete lantern tower is all that remains at the present.
1921 The new station at Bull Harbour on Hope Island is commissioned and takes over Triangle Island's wireless duties. 
     Triangle Island is about 40 km off the northern tip of Vancouver Island.  The island's attraction was the 220 meter high peak onto which the light and wireless stations were constructed.  Island was 4 km in circumference.  Vegetation consisted of bushes and grasses.  Household water was captured by roof gutters feeding basement cisterns.  Supply vessels came two or three times a year.  See scrap of 1896 Hammond Co. map here for location.
    Wild weather was a problem.  In the banner photo (c.1913) above note the reinforced doors, window taping and the bracing beam on the right rear from the eave to the ground.  This building had been blown off its foundations at least once!

    Location is N50 51' 42"   W129 4' 59"
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