School – Lighthouse Memories

Re-inventing the Wheel, er, The Paddleboard

November 16, 2012boat, build, inflatable, kayak, lighthouse, paddleboard, sport, Stand Up Paddleboard, SUPAdult Memories, Advertisement, Beachcombing, British Columbia, Canada, Construction, Environment, Equipment, First Nations, History, Hobbies, Information, Lighthouses, Recreation, School, Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP), Travel, WildliferetlkprLeave a Comment

This not a lighthouse story, but it shows what interests a lighthouse keeper. If you live near the sea, you are always interested in ways and means of travelling, fishing , and exploring on the ocean. It is only natural. Here is my newest find – a SUP! **************************** After posting the story “Stand” – […]

Life on Nootka Lighthouse c. 1950s

May 1, 20121950s, Juanita | DuLong, lighthouse, litehouse, Nootka, ships, supplies, tsunamiBritish Columbia, Canada, Childhood Memories, Coast Guard, Communication, Foghorns, Groceries & Mail, Incidents, Keepers, Lighthouses, Photos, Radio, School, Storms, Tsunami, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

Here is another story from Ms. Juanita (Swanson) DuLong. She was a young girl on most of these stations, but living there, and hearing stories from her parents, she has created lighthouse memories from the 1950s time. Her older stories are found here, here and here. One more to come she says. It is said that for […]

Life on Pine Island c. 1950s

April 4, 20121950s, Juanita | DuLong, lighthouse, litehouse, Pine Island, ships, supplies, tsunamiBritish Columbia, Canada, Childhood Memories, Coast Guard, Communication, Foghorns, Groceries & Mail, Incidents, Keepers, Lighthouses, Photos, Radio, School, Storms, Tsunami, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

Here is another story from Ms. Juanita (Swanson) DuLong. She was a young girl on most of these stations, but living there, and hearing stories from her parents, she has created lighthouse memories from the 1950s time. Her older stories are found here and here. Her husband Roy scanned some nice photos of Pine Island […]

Sister’s Island c. early 1950s

February 10, 2012Art | Swanson, exploration, Fiddle reef, life, lightouse, litehouse, promotion, Sisters IslandBeachcombing, Books, Childhood Memories, Children, Foghorns, Incidents, Lighthouses, On The Job, Recreation, School, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

Here is a continuance of the tales of Juanita (Swanson) DuLong. Somewhere around the early 1950s, probably after a year at Fiddle Reef lighthouse the family was moved to Sisters Island. Juanita says: Fiddle Reef’s plumbing was a cistern and hand pump. Cold water only. Sisters was a little tamer and had a bathroom. When we arrived […]

Surviving on Fiddle Reef Lighthouse c. 1950s

February 3, 2012Art | Swanson, childhood memories, children, Fiddle reef, lighthouse, litehouse, Oak BayAdult Memories, Childhood Memories, Children, Equipment, Groceries & Mail, Keepers, Light, Lighthouses, Recreation, Rowboat, School, Weather, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

View Larger Map On January 21, 2012 I wrote about a family that lived on the lighthouses in the 1950s up to the 1960s, all in the days of no electricity – only kerosene lamps. I now have another installment from Ms. Juanita (Swanson) DuLong. She was only four years old at the time on […]

Life on the Lighthouses c. 1950s to 1960s

January 21, 2012Cape Mudge, children, Fiddle reef, lighthouse, litehouse, Pine Nootka, SistersChildhood Memories, Children, Christmas, Equipment, Foghorns, Groceries & Mail, Keepers, Light, Lighthouses, On The Job, School, Travel, Visitors, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

I receive links to lighthouse stories in the most unbelievable ways. This one arrived in the middle of an email addressed to someone else, which was then passed on to me. After contacting this first writer I was passed on to another. To keep track of all my contacts I think I will soon need […]

A Posting to Isolation – Pachena Pt. 1949 – 1955

December 23, 2011Healy, isolation, lighthouse, litehouse, Pachena, radioAdult Memories, Children, Communication, Equipment, Groceries & Mail, Keepers, Lighthouses, Medical Emergency, Old Website, On The Job, Operators, Radio, Recreation, School, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

– Betty Healey (Wife of Arthur Healey – Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Pachena Point Radio station (VAD) 1949 – 1955)– forward by editor Tom Racine (from his website History of Spectrum Management in Canada) D.O.T.’er Arthur Healey was officer-in-charge at Pachena Point Marine Radio Station from 1949 to 1955. With his wife Betty and three children, Ann, John and Michael […]

Life on Kains Island 1933 – 1944

December 20, 2011| Carver, boats, engines, fishing, Kains, lighthouse, litehouse, operator, Quatsino, radio, repairsAdult Memories, Childhood Memories, Children, Coast Guard, Communication, Equipment, Fishing, Foghorns, Government, Groceries & Mail, History, Incidents, Keepers, Light, Lighthouses, Medical, Old Website, On The Job, Operators, Pensions, Radio, School, Weather, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

– Roy Carver (son of C. E. Carver on Kains Island November 1933 – July 1944) Roy Carver told me he “was born at the Bancroft Nursing Home at 705 Cook Street in Victoria, BC in mid 1930s. This nursing home was set up for expectant mothers that lived in out of the way places with […]

Porlier Pass Lighthouse 1949 – 1965

November 27, 2011lighthouse, litehouse, Porlier Pass, storiesAdult Memories, Automation, Childhood Memories, Children, Coast Guard, Communication, Construction, Equipment, Government, History, Incidents, Keepers, Lighthouses, Medical, Medical Emergency, Old Website, Pensions, Radio, Recreation, School, Stories, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

– Denice Goudie (grandaughter of Henry Edward Brown, Senior Keeper on Porlier Pass 1949 – 1965) Please go to the Porlier Pass lighthouse website, a project of Dennice Goudie, and read the rest of her account and recollections of life at Porlier Pass and a history of her grandfather. Grandfather of this researcher Denice Goudie, Henry Edward […]

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