These museum pieces are located at Race Rocks in the science house.
.
-
- The microphone used in the radio room for weather and radio communications.
-
- This keypad was used for the telegraphic communications in Morse Code over the radio in the early years.See link to communications
-
-
This First Nations dugout canoe, made from one cedar trunk was found on nearby Taylor Beach.
-
- 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.
-
- 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 !
-
- 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
The following items are no longer at Race Rocks:
-
- 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.
-
- Side detail of one of the medicine bottles to the right.
-
- This clay pipe bowl was found by Carol Slater on the island in fresh soil overturned by the conduit construction.
Link to the Canon at Race Rocks
-
- This Cannon from a shipwreck in Beecher Bay has an interesting history
-
- Pearson College students and cannon
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 keeper’s 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.