051   A long shot of Estevan Point Lighthouse from a beach to the north of the station.
052   Estevan Point station personnel enjoying a beach outing.
053   Estevan Point station personnel enjoying a beach outing.

054   Estevan Point station personnel enjoying a beach outing.

055   Charlie & Gene Aitkens enjoying a 3 hole golf course at Estevan.

056    Unknown group.

 
057   The little girl is Joyce Unwin.
058   Some Estevan Point ladies. From the left: Ada Unwin, little Joyce Unwin, Mrs. Meiss, daughter Thelma Meiss & Mary Spouse. Mary Spouse's husband was the power house operator. The rest of the ladies were married to radio operators.
059   Album page showing the layout of the photos.
060   Album page showing the layout of the photos.
061   From the left are Frieda Spouse, Ed Beart & Gene Aitkens.
062   Estevan wireless operator Tommy (Gene Aitkens' brother), little Ray Spouse and little Joyce Unwin.
063   Estevan wireless operator Tommy (Gene Aitkens' brother), little Ray Spouse and little Joyce Unwin.

064   Estevan Point crew. From the left are Dave Beatty the Light Keeper's Assistant, Cecil Grey, Charlie Aitkens, Ed Beart, Ray Spouse and Phil Eldridge. (Gene Aitkens' notes.)

065   This could be a photo of the Aitkens' house at Estevan Point. Bowerman mentions in his narrative the number of well tended vegetable and flower gardens at the sites he visited.

066   Mary Spouse and Mable Hamilton. The Hamilton's owned a farm up past Homiss. Mrs Hamilton eventually went to Ireland. Ray Spouse was the Estevan station's power house operator. The photo album page identifies the two ladies, but there is some debate as the Mable Hamilton identified here does not look like her in a photo sent in by a contributor.

067 Taylor, shown here in the 1930's at Estevan Point with Gene Aitkens, was an ex English and Canadian Marconi Company engineer. Taylor was an early operator who went back east during the early days of World War One for duty. In 1916 he was appointed the workshop's assistant engineer to Stephenson. J. D. Taylor carried out, with Gilbert and Stephenson, the installation and calibration of the new Pachena Direction Finding Station in 1922.
068   Some of the lads of Estevan Point: from the left George Smith, Charles Aitkens, Phil Eldridge, Ray Spouse, & Elmo Meiss.
069   Don Archibald is shown with Gene Aitkens at Estevan. He was there in June 1935. Often visitors to the station would board with others on the site. Archibald came to 'check the barometers', so from that I assume he was a meteorological technician periodically visiting all the weather reporting stations to check the calibration of the instruments.
070   Charlie and Gene Aitkens at Estevan
071  Jim Meiss, in the 1934-37 period, was the Estevan station's chief wireless operator.
072   George Gilbert, wireless technician boarded with the Aitkens. Gene Aitken's diary has him arriving on January 25, 1934.
073   Estevan Point truck with mattress in the back. Passengers rode on the mattress to and from the landing at Hesquiat.

074   A group with a visiting priest at Hesquiat. The priest may be Father Anthony Terhaar who was well known along the coast. Gene's diary mentions his visit in August 1935.

075   "Cougar Rock" at Homiss, an old native village somewhat to the north of Estevan Point.

 

 

Chas Aitkens

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