British Columbia, Canada - lighthouse keeper memories

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1. British Columbia Lighthouse Keeper Memories

1. Chris Mills advertising page created by Ron Ammundsen

2. This Sitemap page

2. Lighthouse Keeper Database Homepage - a listing of lighthouse keepers from 1800s to present

1. List of lighthouse keepers and wives (no stations listed)

2. List of lighthouses with location and dates (no keepers listed)

3. Pages from Vancouver City Directory 1910 - 1912

3. Introduction by John Coldwell, webmaster

1. List of assistant keepers, wives, children and dogs on McInnes Island 1977 - 2001

1. Langara Island 1943 - 1945

2. Foghorns were cool places to sleep c. 1980s

3. Porlier Pass 1949 - 1965

4. Memories of Boat Bluff

5. Cape Scott before the lighthouse 1942 - 1943

6. A trip by workboat from Carmanah Point c. 1970s

7. Radiotelephone Frustration on McInnes Island c. 1970s - 2000

8. A posting to isolation c. 1949 - 1955

9. Do you have a photo of me mid 1978?

10. The Passing of a Lot of Memories

11. Return to Kains Island after 48 Years

12. Life on Kains Island 1933 - 1944

13. Howard Frazer Chamberlin Family Adventures c. 1930s

1. Nootka Attacked in WW2?

6.Automation

1.Bill S-215 - An Act to Protect Heritage lighthouses

2. Sentiments from Ivory Island (no foghorns)

3. Remains of Cape St. James. (video)

4. What next for Brockton Point? (video)

5. Discovery Island rots in the sun (videos)

6. Lighthouse? Pretty soon a Darkhouse!

7. Beachcombing

1. Beachcombing on Langara Island

2. Glass balls - the dream of every beachcomber

3. The great Pacific running shoe ultra-marathon

8. Books & Manuals

1. Books describing British Columbia lighthouses

2. Manuals for British Columbia lighthouse keepers

Rules and instructions for light-house keepers (c. 1875)

Rules and instructions for light-house keepers (c. 1912)

Rules and instructions for light-house keepers (c. 1953)

3. Fog Alarm and Lamp Manuals from Chance Brothers

A few notes on modern lighthouse practice (c. 1910)

The lighthouse work of Sir James Chance, baronet (c. 1902)

Chance diaphone manual (c. 1953)

9. Childhood Memories

1. Cabin on Langara Island

2. Reading material

3. I remember c. 1927

4. My father was so proud of me c. 1918

1. Life on First Narrows

5. I remember c. early 1960s

10. Information for Mariners & Tourists.

Sail Weather Info (sailwx.info) - information for mariners.

B.C. Ferries - ships, timetables, fares, conditions.

Marine Charts - east and west coasts of North America.

11. Descriptions

1. Sisters Island c. 1927

1. Life on a lighthouse

12. Equipment

1. Sisters Island fog horn and light c. 1927

2. 'F' type diaphone c. 1969

3. Automation comes to Triple Island c. 1950s

4. Life at First Narrows c. 1913

5. Highline operation at McInnes Island

6. Derrick operation at Boat Bluff

7. New weather reporting at Boat Bluff

8. Chance Brothers - early Suppliers of Equipment for Canadian Lighthouses

9. Fairbanks Morse Type "N" Gasoline Engines c. 1900s

13. Foghorns

14. Glossary

1. Glossary of lighthouse and marine terms sorted by topic.

2. Glossary of lighthouse and marine terms sorted alphabetically.

15. Groceries-Mail

1. Forward by John Coldwell

2. Groceries at Green Island c. 1975

3. Groceries at Sisters Island c. 1927

4. Going for groceries at Sisters Island c. 1928

5. Posting mail at Sisters Island c. 1928

6. Posting mail at Ballenas Island c. 1928

7. Fish for dinner at Sandheads

8. Supplies for Cape Scott

9. Groceries at Kains (Quatsino) c. 1975

16. Housing

1. What you take for granted

2. The love of my life

17. Humour

1. The lighthouse and the aircraft carrier (video)

2. A casualty of automation (graphic)

3. The best laid plans of mice and men . . .

4. Language problems

5. Lightkeeper boat race

6. English as a second language (video)

7. Tools of a lighthouse keeper

8. New rules for government employees

9. The lightkeeper's lament

10. Quotes, Buzz Words . . .

11. Want to be a lighthouse keeper?

12. The senior keeper always makes the rules

13. Helicopter pilot rules

14. Evaluation reports

15. A day off work

16. Letter of refused refusal

17. How many lightkeepers does it take to change a lightbulb?

18. Company policy

19. Exceptional lightkeeper

20. All is lost

21. Lightkeeper beliefs

22. Good deal

23. Job interview

24. Snickers Advertisement (graphic)

25. Carlsberg beer commercial (video)

26. A couple of "groaners"for the kids

18. In Memoriam

19. Medical

1. Illness at Boat Bluff

2. Read About More Hardships on BC Lighthouses

20. On the Job

1. Before the Manuals - Applying for the Job c. 1930s

2. Manual - Rules and Instructions for Lightkeepers . . . 1875

3. Manual - Rules and Instructions for Lightkeepers . . . 1912

4. Manual - Rules and Instructions for Lightkeepers . . . 1953

5. Graveyard Shift on Pulteney Point c. 1970

6. Day of Departure c. 1970s

7. Weather Observing - a large part of the job

8. The Wind Speed Indicator Episode c.1935

9. Moving Day

10. You Just Thought Moving Was a Pain!

11. The Lightkeepers (Cape Scott 2006)

21. Pay-Wages-Expenses

1. Comparison of wages 1942 - 1956

2. Lighthouse time

22. Canadian Government Employee Pension Plans - PSPP, CPP, OAP

1. Public Service Pension Plan

23. Photos

1. Photos of BC lighthouses in the present days

1. Cape Scott

2. Capilano (First Narrows)

3. Langara Point

4. Lennard Island

5. McInnes Island

6. Prospect Point

7. Triangle Island

8. Triple Island

1. Triple Island Third Order Lens

2. Photos of BC lighthouses in the early years

1. Cape Scott c. 1942

2. Capilano (First Narrows)

3. Carmanah Point

4. Cyril R. Littlebury - Western Canada

5. Lennard Island

6. Prospect Point

7. Triple Island

1. Triple Island Third Order Lens

8. Unwatched lights

1. Pages from Vancouver City Directory 1910 - 1912

3. Links to other photos of BC lighthouses

1.Cyril R. Littlebury - Lighthouses Only

1.Tri-City News Article

4. Links to BC lighthouse paintings and graphics

24. Poetry

1. I want to marry a lighthouse keeper (song)

25. Recreation

1. Hiking on Langara Island

2. My rowboat on Langara Island

3. Alaska king crab

4. Eagles Bathing

5. Kids and boats

25. Rescues

1. A near miss at Sisters Island

2. Lots of firewood at Ballenas

3. Boat aground at Sisters Island c. 1922

4. Disaster of the "Grier Starrett" off Green Island

5. Minnie Patterson and the "Caloma" off Cape Beale

6. MV "Queen of Prince Rupert" aground in Gunboat Pass

7. Aiding and abetting at Pulteney Point c. 1970

26. Schooling

1. Schooling on Sisters lighthouse c. 1927

27. Storms

1. Hurricane on Langara Island

2. Tropical Storm of October 1984

1. Beaufort Wind Scale

3. The True Story of Egg Island Nov. 2, 1948

4. Storm preparation on the lighthouse

5. Another lighthouse destroyed by the sea

1. Daily Colonist article on the wave.

2. Victoria Daily Times article on the storm.

28. Transportation

1. A trip to Scarlett Point c. 1973 (video)

2. A trip to Sisters Island at Christmas c. 1927

3. A trip by workboat from Carmanah Point c. 1960s

4. Day of departure on leave c. 1970s

5. A trip by helicopter up the west coast to Carmanah Point c. 2006.

29. Visitors

1. Santa Claus!

2. William H. Pierce

3. Thomas Crosby V

4. Aiding and abetting at Pulteney Point c. 1970

30. Wildlife

1. Cougar at Kains Island

2. Bear at Addenbroke Island

3. Killer whale attack at McInnes Island

4. Alaska king crab

5. Eagles bathing

6. Death on Price Island

30. Working Wives
- 2. Drowning at Lawyer Island

John Coldwell (retired BC lighthouse keeper)
Galvanistrasse 8
A-4040 Linz, Austria
Tel: +43 (732) 750515