301 Duplicate with 061

302 Unknown, except for Bowerman on the bottom step.

303  Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site.

304 Photo is entitled "Dick".

   Thought it was Barrington Passage, NS. Word from that area is that there is no church steeple (over left shoulder) in that vicinity.

305  Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site.

306  Unknown. Mast imbedded in concrete above ground could mean a thin layer of soil. Bowerman on left.

307   H.M.S. Kent. Vessel got its hair mussed by the German cruiser Nuemberg off the Falklands in December of 1914. Steamed to the Navy base in Esquimalt, British Columbia, for repairs, thus this photo of the H.M.S.Kent at Esquimalt May 1915. She may have had a shake down cruise after repairs and Jack took this photo as she went by Digby.

308   Group sitting on the front steps of the Barrington Passage, NS operations building. Bowerman with pipe in front. The same group except for Bowerman is in photo 344.

309   Duplicate with 162.

310   Appears to be operator Raines' daughter. Other gentleman is unknown.

311   Album plate--applicable photos edited off and appear elsewhere on site.

312   Barrington Passage Wireless station, Nova Scotia. 

313   Photo taken on a vessel. Crew has foreign appearing (to me) uniforms. Might have been taken in 1918 when Bowerman was back with the Royal Navy on a troop transport vessel.

314   Field, BC. Bowerman took this photo at the C.P.R. train station in Field B.C. while stretching his legs during one of his trips back and forth across Canada. 3050 meter high Mt. Stephen in the background.

315   Triangle Island operators digs. Compare with photo 053 and note windows are different. Storm windows fitted? Smaller panes easier to replace when blown out by the wind. As I've mentioned elsewhere, this was a B.C. Mills prefabricated building. These buildings could be erected very quickly once the foundation was laid.

316  Station guards during WW1 perhaps?

317   Two buildings, one off to the right. This appears to be Point Grey, operations building in the foreground with the operator's dwelling to the rear. Woman is standing at edge of a road. Road was put through to the station in 1911. Compare with this scrap from a 1907 BC Mills advertisement--the thick tree trunk at the rear of the house is a clue.  

318   Nice snow fall somewhere. I can't see our stations being fitted with the decorative slats. Photo may have been taken in the Rocky or Selkirk Mountains during one of Jack's train trips. People in photo are unknown, Jack had no family at this time.

319   "Tourist bureau" shot of the Triangle Island station.

320   Reverse in WJB's handwriting says: "Hesquiat near Estevan Pt. Approx 1920. Typical Indian group and dwelling. The man standing on right is not an Indian (myself)" . Hesquiat was the native village and bay to the east of Estevan Point.

321   Perhaps operator 'Edmunds' on the left? Family and friends grouping. Digby?

322   Lighthouse tender 'Quadra' sitting in the shallows of Nanaimo Harbour. She was in collision with SS Charmer in February 1917. Gallows Point light off to the left showing as a white column. (Readers of the 'Western Mariner' recognized the incident.)

323   Beach scene. Bowerman on the right.

324   Triangle Island keeper James Davis and his wife and three daughters. Look at a big copy of 117 and see that the fellow on the left (hat & moustache) appears in both. (Summer of 1912?)

325   Hoisting an antenna at a station. Lots of wire required for the frequencies and transmitter systems then in use.

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