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Point Grey ' Y '
Monitoring Station VAI Point Grey, B.C. , a coast station, is the ancestor of the Marine Traffic Control System in Vancouver, having been in business since 1908. Some years later, during the 2nd World War, Point Grey got better known when women worked there. The lack of radio operators was a problem and the government needed to intercept the Japanese KANA Morse code.
Hence , space was acquired in the building to house what was then called a ' Y ' or radio intercepts operation.
After several years of research, some tidbits of information was gathered from discrete sources until some who worked there were found and historical data was at last obtained. We are grateful to:
Photo Album - Early photos at Point Grey and Lulu Island Links to informative sites about YL Sparks a) RAC b) YL Sparks stories A 1911 description of the Pt Grey station from Radio Craft magazine 1935
In 1950, part of a national program, the first monitoring installation in the Pacific region, was made in a back room at the Pt. Grey station. State of the art General Radio Co. precision measurement equipment, together with an RCA AR88LF receiver, were supplied from Ottawa.
An Ottawa technician made the installation with assistance from Sid Woods from the Pacific Region Radio Workshop. Initially, monitoring was restricted to below 30 MHz, but VHF capability was added later. Vern Read was appointed as the monitoring operator, and this service was only open weekdays, except when special assignments were required.
A work in progress ! Roll Call Point Grey/Lulu Is./Steveston ,BC in
progress ... (1936
- mid 50's ) for 'Y' or intercepts operation
Point Grey
Gray, A.L. 'Andy' OIC
Gold, Sammy, shift supervisor
?, Vern , shift supervisor
Lobb , Richard, joined as intercept operator 15 April 1939, was in the first opr group for Kana intercepts at the beginning of the war and stayed on until spring of 1943 when he went to the Wireless Workshop Victoria as a technician. The first intercept position was manned by him, Herb Holt, Tom Smith and Bill Gregory
Lathwell, Harry
Shea, Eric
Lake, ( Strachan ) Agnes , SK, was at the Radio School with Olive Carroll and both wrote their exam at the same time.
Carroll (Roeckner), Olive from Point Grey intercepts 1944-45 to DND 45-46 to sea early in 1947
Waller , Ina was the first YL to get her radio certificate in western Canada, she worked at VAI/Point Grey Marine then went to DND at Victoria. Late '46, Ina married Vic Zariski who had worked at Lulu Island. At War's end, Vic was posted to a station up the BC coast
Anderson , (King ) Elizabeth from Point Grey intercepts to DND to sea early in 1947
Thomas, Ron, later went to VAE and on to being a radio inspector
Scroxton, George
Mayne, Tommy > formerly with the Merchant navy
Bird, Janet
Quilty, Florence
Larry Reid wrote that at its peak, there were 28 intercept operators in three shifts
Lulu Island When the war ended in Europe ended in 1945, many of those interceptors from the East coast were transferred and a new facility at the old Williams Road transmitter site on Lulu Island was installed but the 68 operators there had not reached their peak efficiency when Japan surrendered. Ryan, Bill Harrison, Brian Healy, Art Devlin, Eric Good, Ed Greenwood, Lorne Krauter, Ken Lovell, Sy McCurdy, Walter Taylor, Charlie "Chas" Wilson, Lorne 'Scotty'
Palmer (Smith) Lylie received her training in Winnipeg and went from Hudson's Bay Moose Factory to Intercept at Lulu then to Sparks on Norwegian ships to DOT Edmonton Aeradio
Taylor, Jim > 1944-45 Zariski, Vic Knox, Malcom Hyde, Scotty B ?, Bill Pre-war at VAI ( a work in progress )
Durkee, Ken M Field, J.H. OIC in 1908 Gilliland, T. Gordon Jones, Syd J.H. MacDonald ( 1911 ) 1920-23 : Lofty Harris, Daniels, Charlie Acton, Turner, Burford, Kelk, Samuels Edmunds , Hector F Corriveau, Sam Gold , Bill Parkin, Hollis, Jack Bowerman,
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Point Grey ' Y ' and monitoring station - Richard 'DICK' Lobb
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