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| These museum pieces are located at Race Rocks in the museum area. | ||
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| This keypad was used for the telegraphic communications in Morse Code over the radio in the early years. | The microphone used in the radio room for weather and radio communications. | This list of signals was used for communication with Esquimalt and Fort Rod Hill prior to radio communications |
| Link to communications file | I especially like the one for "Man-of-War" in sight ! |
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| This early portable foghorn made in Lunenburgh, USA, was used by the keeper to provide extra emergency warning if ships were approaching in the fog. See the foghorn file for other pictures of it. | The method which used to serve for fire extinguishing on the island. | A fire extinguisher of early vintage from the interior of a building. Original contents : CCl4 | This First Nations dugout canoe, made from one cedar trunk was found on nearby Taylor Beach. It serves as a reminder of the first people who appreciated the special nature of this set of islands. |
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| This clay pipe bowl was found by Carol Slater on the island in fresh soil overturned by the conduit construction. | Link to engine room artifacts. | Side detail of one of the medicine bottles to the right. | Race Rocks Medicine chest, probably from the late 1800's. This was discovered by Trev Anderson when an old building was being demolished at Race Rocks in the 1960's. |
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| Cannon from the Swordfish wreck. In 1978, PC student Alex Guevarra and faculty member Garry Fletcher while diving on the wreck of the Swordfish in Beecher bay, discovered a cast iron cannon. The cannon was retrieved after some effort and under the direction of Pearson College Anthropology teacher Brad Myers, was restored over a period of 10 years in a solution with electrolysis. It was transferred to Race Rocks and now sits on a cradle, made by a former light keepers assistant, at the base of the tower. It has been found out since that the cannon was probably being carried as ballast on the ship, it had been was cast in Glasgow in 1790, in a set of cannons that all had oval bores. The set was subsequently sold off as scrap metal. |
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