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Schooling on the Sisters Lighthouse c. 1927

May 29, 2012life, lighthouse, litehouse, living, schooling, Sisters, Sisters Island, StannardAdult Memories, British Columbia, Children, Equipment, Foghorns, History, Information, Keepers, Light, Lighthouses, Old Website, On The Job, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

This story is not only about schooling! This is the whole family helping out to run the lighthouse while tending to daily living. Life on the lighthouse in the early days was anything but fun! – retlkpr ************************* – Elizabeth Kate (Stannard) Smithman (Wife of Henry Herbert Smithman who was Senior Keeper at Sisters Island […]

The Lightkeepers by Graham Chandler

May 16, 2012Cape Scott, Humchitt, Legion, life, lighthouse, litehouse, living, MaliszewskiAdult Memories, Anti-Automation, Automation, Beachcombing, British Columbia, Coast Guard, Communication, Equipment, First Nations, Fishing, Government, Groceries & Mail, Hobbies, Keepers, Lighthouses, Medical, Medical Emergency, Military, Old Website, On The Job, Radio, Recipes, Recreation, Search & Rescue, Ships & Shipping, Storms, VisitorsretlkprLeave a Comment

Originally published in the January/February 2007 issue of Legion Magazine We hadn’t expected gourmet Hungarian goulash served up on Royal Doulton china. But at the Cape Scott light station on the remote northwestern tip of Vancouver Island–a place that is normally engulfed in wet grey and storms–today is an exception. The sky is azure, there’s not […]

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 […]

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