radio – Lighthouse Memories

Three Skeleton Key – A Lighthouse Play

October 3, 2012lighthouse, litehouse, mystery, play, radioChildren, History, Incidents, Keepers, Light, Lighthouses, On The Job, Radio, Shipwrecks, Stories, VisitorsretlkprLeave a Comment

Three Skeleton Key is a one act play I have never heard about before today. It was written as a short story by George G. Toudouze and was first published in 1937 in English. This is a short story about three men who operate a lighthouse miles offshore of the South American coast. They love […]

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 […]

A Language Problem

December 21, 2011lighthouse, lightkeeper, litehouse, name, Point Atkinson, radio, ship, Vancouver HarbourBoats, Childhood Memories, Communication, Foreign, History, Humour, Keepers, Lighthouses, Old Website, Radio, Ships, Ships & ShippingretlkprLeave a Comment

– story from Candy-Lea ChickiteMy grandmother loved to tell this one to me. I think she may have had the wrong name of the lighthouse keeper. She said it was her father, or maybe she said her father told her the story – I was young when I heard it but I think it may […]

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 […]

Radiotelephone Frustration – McInnes Island c. 1970s – 2000

November 30, 2011communications, lighthouse, McInnes, operators, radio, radiotepephone, telephoneAdult Memories, Communication, Equipment, Lighthouses, Old Website, Operators, RadioretlkprLeave a Comment

What a convenience! What an expense! What a frustration! Anyone who has used a radio-telephone on the BC coast will agree with me. It was great to have semi-private communications rather than using the government-installed ALAN (Automated Lightstation Alarm Network) phone which was not private, and also broke down. It was expensive to have a […]

Website – Rough Radio – Wireless on the BC Coast

October 22, 2011Frank | Statham, genealogy, lighthouse, litehouse, radio, websiteAdult Memories, Advertisement, British Columbia, Construction, Equipment, Genealogy, History, Information, Lighthouses, On The Job, Operators, Photos, RadioretlkprLeave a Comment

This is a promotion for my friend Frank Statham’s website Rough Radio – Wireless on the British Columbia Coast. As I started off collecting lighthouse keeper names for genealogy records, Frank started with a collection of photographs, and with his past work as a radio operator, his interest was sparked into creating a website to […]

In Memorium – Robert H. W. Collins (1914 – 1993)

September 29, 1993Bob, Collins, HAM, In Memorium, Kains, lighthouse, litehouse, Quatsino, radio, Robert, VE7AOIAdult Memories, In Memorium, LighthousesretlkprLeave a Comment

Bob Collins (February 06, 1914 -September 29th, 1993) was Principal Keeper on Kains Island (Quatsino). He ran a HAM radio rig with the call sign VE7AOI. Bob was known far and wide as the “King of Kains”. He was a very reserved man and at times very hard to get along with, but he had […]

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