- Details of the Pacific Com-

. munications program, released: for

- Command headquarters

the first: time’ by Western Air
of. the

~ Royal .Canadian Air Force, reveal

the. hitherto secret. story of one
of. Canada’s greatest operational
achievements, which was forged

in war under the urgent threat of

- Japanese aggression but remains

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in’ peace as an outstanding con-
structive development for the
future of the west.

By this achievement the most
remote parts of British Columbia
became instantly accessible, by
voice and teletype, over an intri-
cate network of land lines and
radio links, integrated with the
great organization of air bases
and military and naval units which
formed a prime bulwark of na-
tional defence during the war
with Japan.

When the disaster at Pearl
Harbour laid the Pacifie Coast
open to Japanese attack it became
immediately and urgently neces-
sary to provide from scratch, the
vast network of communications
required to organize an efficient
defence or to launch’a successful
offense. Civilian facilities were
entirely inadequate, and no civil-
jan company had either the men
or materials to complete such a
tremendous undertaking within
the desperately small time limit
upon which the safety of this con-
tinent depended.

Some idea of the problems in-
volved can be gained from the

Air Command Tells Of

Communication Web —

quency Modulation radio was
adopted in some cases,. and: ex-
periment proved it possible — to
“bend”...the. radio beam ‘down

island channels..to economize. on:’:

transmitters. This was necessary

_because there were only: 23. prec-

ious. F.M.. transmitters. available,:
and part of the program: had to be
shaped around this salient fact.
Not one was wasted or destroyed
in installation. The range of
Frequency “Modulation radio is
roughly limited to the line of
vision, and so mountain. peaks
were chosen for transmitter sites.
Even at Mt. Hayes (near Prince
Rupert) where the delicate sets,
each weighing 1,200 lbs., had to
be raised on a caterpillar tractor
that literally hung from precipit-
ous cliffs by its own cable winch
at times, there was no loss or
damage.

Work went on through the
summer, and through one of the
coldest winters in Northern Brit-
ish Columbia history. It was al-
ways arduous and often danger-
ous. One airman stepped ashore
from a barge load of supplies on
the rocky beach at Marble Island,
and was swept to his death a mo-
ment later by a mighty roller
from the open Pacific. There
were no docks or other amenities
of civilization in those lonely out-
posts.

A new word, “bushed,’” came
into being, descriptive of those
whose nerves and minds gave way
from months of loneliness and
isolation. But the work went on,
and in August, 1944, the program

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‘One of many isolated shelter

fact that’.in the completed pro--
“gram .are..16,252 miles. of wire

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Strung along 64,092. poles for a
“distance. of. 1,933 miles.
= statisti¢s cannot possibly picture
* the: almost. insuperable ‘difficul-_

But: dry

ties of:. heavy construction and
delicate: installation through hun-

“dreds of miles of untrod forests,

up the precipitous ‘cliffs of rug-
_ged mountains and along the surf
swept. shores of rocky islets in
tho open, Pacific: :

It was too big a job for civilian
companies to.tackle alone, s0 the

‘ ‘responsibility was laid on the De-

partment of National. Defenco for
Aly,-urider the direction of the
‘then .Air Officer Commanding
Wostern Air Command, Air Vice-
Marshall L. I’. Stevenson, C.B.
In carrying out this assignment
the Air Force enlisted the aid of
tho Army and a scoro of civilian
companies as well as the Depart.
ment of Munitions and Supply.
Whore land lines would not reach,
Frequency Modulation Radio
Tolephone communications wore
sot up, and temporary connections
wore soon established with evory
one of 60 key points giving in-
stant necess to units of all three
branches of the Armed Forces, as
woll as those units of the United
States Army and Navy which
wore: disposed for tho defenco of
the Pacifie Conant. Thore was
little. accurate onginooring data
available to go on and tho many
apeeial. factors involved made it
necessary to .improvine, experi-
ment, and construct simultane-
“ously, Yt wan originally intended
to link such desolate outposta as
Marble Island = hy  aubmarino
cables, but later dacided that thoy
could ‘not Inst for, long .on tho

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-fonture of that const, So Fro-

for the wife

For. those who

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A delicious Change

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‘delight(ul drive in and dinner?

was completed. and bécame. a |”
“system,”’ two ‘thousand miles-of ..

interlocking -defence . points im-
mediately accessible. across. ‘some
of the widest country in Canada.
Long before it..was ‘completed its
benefits were felt. - Skilled air-
crews and valuable aircraft were
no longer lost through delays in
communication that’.were form-
erly as much as days..

mation, the increased ease of. the
disposition of defence forces, re--
moved one of: the greatest dang-
ers to possible invasion, =. ~

Happily this great: - insurance
policy for the safety’. of Canada
never became a claim, and happily
its benefits are carried forward
into peace. On July (26, °1944,
tho present A,O.C, Wostern Air
Command, Air Vice-Marshall F,
V. Heakes, C.B., inaugurated
direct broadcasting service -of tho
CBC to Prince Rupert, a service
made available by the joint armed
forces over the facilities of the
Pacifie Communientions System.
On that occasion, referring to the
vast developments required for
the defence of Canada, on both
consts and in Newfoundland, ho
anid: “War is a-deatructive thing,
both in men and materials...
but in the ease of there. develop-
ments for the dofence of Canada
one ean definitely term many of
them constructive for the future,
When tho pioncers of our -rail-
wayan laid their great frameworl
of construction: across .the -coun-
try, they shaped the pattern . of
future Canadian dovolopment. So,
in the rotting “Up of this -gront
systom of aiy bases and the
oqually important communications

syatem which server: thom, . tho |
-(efonea forces have «renderad. a -
rorvice to tho future of this prove -

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ince and Canada that marks a
great step forward.’

Only those companies whose
separate contributions played such.
an important part in the com-
pletion. of the whole program
could adequately present full de-
tails of the multitude of difficul-
ties and dangers which had to be

-overcome. In so great an under-
taking. final .success.was -neces- -
sarily. dependent upon the efforts |

ofeach ‘participant. ;
Although the Royal Canadian

-Air.. Force was.. responsible. for

general supervision, and provided
much of the construction and
maintenance, the major part play-
ed by. the Army and a score of
civilian companies cannot be over-
emphasized. A large proportion
of the engineering and construc-
tion projects involving 2000 miles
of land lines fell to the British
Columbia Telephone Company
Ltd. and the Canadian National
Telegraphs together with the
McGregor Construction Company,
the Dominion Government Tele-
graphs, the Canadian Telephone

and Supply Co. Ltd., the Canadian:

Pacific Railway, Gibson and Son
Ltd., and the Peterson Electrical
Construction Company. The
Canadian Army laid the ground
work over much of the route by
clearing a way for the poles for
1,100 miles over some of the
most difficult and lonely terrain
in the province.

Buildings to house repeater and
terminal equipment throughout
the system were constructed by
Armstrong and Monteith, A. Sul-
livan, Marwell Construction Com-
pany, Bennet & White, E. H.
Shockley, G. E. Baynes, the Poole
Construction Company, and _ the
Coast Construction Company.
Many of the 45 new buildings in-

‘volved, including those required

for the operation of the radio
links, were built by the No. 9
Construction and Maintenance
Unit of the R.C.A.F.

A major part of the repeater
and terminal electrical equipment
was furnished by the Northern
Electric Company, while the F.M.
radio equipment was supplied by

-full coupon

When Visiting
Please Remember

If you are going visiting don’t
forget to take your ration book
along for the benefit of your host
and hostess.

This is the suggestion of the

_ration administration of the War-

time Prices and Trade Board. Re-
cently, the board -has_ received
some mild complaints from house-
holders about friends coming. to
visit, neglecting to bring their’
ration books and thus making in-
roads into the available supplies
of their hosts.

Here is a typical letter received
from one of the Gulf Islands:

‘Yuring the last six weeks we
have had two married couples, old
friends, arrive for a two and a
half day visit. We were glad to
have them but neither couple
brought their ration book or but-
ter or sugar with them, which
makes it very hard on the people
they are visiting. In fact, my
husband and I had to eut out both
butter and sugar for the time our
visitors were here.”

Ration administration is
hearing from butchers that tokens

seem to be disappearing. The
board urges housewives to use

their tokens regularly so there will
be a continuance of change al-
ways available in the stores.
One explanation of this situa-
tion is that women are finding
the weekly meat ration more than
adequate and are not using the
values, thereby ac-
cumulating a stock of tokens.
They also find the tokens a great
convenience and carry a supply
of them in preference to their
ration book. However, it would
assist the retailers if these little
blue chips are kept in circulation.

and the responsibility for ware-
housing, inspection and accept-
ance of all electrical equipment
was handled by the Automatic
Electric (Canada) Ltd., of Van-
couver.

-To all their untiring energy and
skill, as well as to the thousands

also .

New Ideas for “Lily”

The unlimited possibilities of
“Lily,” the name of the synthetic
islands which have been termed
the magic carpet of the sea and
which revolutionize trans-ocean

air travel were described recently
by the inventor, Mr. Ronald Ham-

ton, of London.

said My. Hamilton.

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“Given proper
exploitation, the idea will be bene-
ficial to the “man in the street,’
“One idea
which pleases me very much is
possible expansion of the
facilities of sea-side resorts.
the principle of my invention, is-
lands could be built off shore with
all the amentities of the land.
The islands would stands upto
the stress of hotels, boarding

houses and pleasure grounds equal
to those functioning on land. The
runways linking. these islands to -
the mainland would stand up to°
the heaviest vehicular traffic.”
Mr. Hamilton also believes that

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muddy banks of the Thames, thus
relieving: much congestion | and
still’ leaving the .river. free: for
navigation.

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The general radio engineering Canada owes the quick and suc-
problem was delegated to the cessful completion of the Pacific

North-west Telephone Company, Communications System.

More than a million Cana-

. dians keep their money safe
at the B ‘of M. Each’ of the
Bank's 1,400,000 deposit
accounts is an expression of
trust in this 128-year-old
institution, The money::on
dep sit, ‘totalling . $1,613,-
000,000, is being constantly
employed for the financial
needs of the nation, of busi-
ness, and of citizens in every
walk of life, :

day-to-day financing,

CASH... The B of M has cash in its vaults and money on deposit
with the Bank of Canada amonnting to .

MONEY in the form of notes of, cheques on, and deposits with
other hanks (payable on demand or at short notice)... kes
INVESTMENTS: The B of M has well over one billion dollars in-
vested in high-grade government bonds and other securities, which
have a ready market, The majority of them will be paid in full at
early dates, Listed on the Bank's books ata figure vot greater than
their market walue, they amount to

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of the Bank's holdings (actually only Yin of 1% of all its: invest.
ments). Valued at vo more than the market price, they amount ta,
CALL LOANS; ‘The Woof M has call loans (loans payable on
demiind) which are well protected by quickly saleable securities,
These loans amount tos 6 ee ee ee

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yo all of which can quickly be tired into cash, cover 89,449 of all that
the Bank owes ‘to ifs. depositors and others, ‘These “quick: assets"
amount (0, ee ee ee ee eee ee hs
| LOANS: During the year, millions of dollars have heen louned to
business firms, (0 farmers, to fishermen -— to citizens in all walks of
\ life, and to Provincial and: Municipal Governments and School Dis.
\ tricts, ‘These lonns now amount to 6 4 6 ee ee ee
BANK DUILDINGS;: In hamlets, villages, towns and large cities
\ from const to coast the Ty of M. serves its customers at 470 offices,
| The value of the buildings owned by the Bank, together with fur
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for commitments made by the Bank on thelr behalf, covering foreign
and domestic trade transactions, totalling $16,895,827,59, . 0. .

TOTAL RESOURCIS WHICH THE B of M HAS TO MERT

GHORGH W. SPINNEY, 7 vesident

WORKING WITH CANADIA

“Business firms and_ private
‘citizens fromthe Atlantic to
‘the Pacific have, during the
year, borrowed and repaid
many millions ofdollars from
the B of M. Now standing —
at $220,000,000,; the Bank’s
. loans oil the wheels of com-
mereeand industry... speed
their expansion. . . create
employment... -and help
-Canadians in their personal

RESOURCES WHICH THE B of M HAS TO MEET ITS OBLIGATIONS:

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to improve. their'farms...
Brain: growers, cattle. and
poultry raisers, fruit growers
and. fue breeders—farmers in
- every line of agriculture—
borrow atthe B of M. Money
which farmers borrow not
only bringscomfortand pros-
_petity. to agriculeural -com-
munities,.but, by enabling
farmersto produce more, con: .
tributes to the prosperity and
welfare of the whole nation, ©.

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| sand individual Canadians—
plumbers and postmen, truck
| driversand trainmen, doctors
| and dentists, husiness men
and business womien—turned
1. to the B of M during the last
| twelve months for a Personal
Loan when extra money was
| needed to take advantage of
| an opportunity or meet an
emergency, Ninety-four peo-
| ple out of every hundred who
| asked for moncy got it.

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_ and other bonds and: deben-:
tures. Throughout. the .war-
these investments - have in-
creased tremendously.’ and:
; today they amount:to~ well
» over ‘a. billion. dollars, .The
majority” of ‘these: are. gilt
_ edge securities, maturing at.’
= @arly dates, and are readily.

marketable, 0

WHAT THE B of M OWES TO OTHERS:

DEPOSITS: Business firms, manufacturers, merchants, farmers and
private citizens, numbering well aver a million, have money on
deposit with the B of M, These deposits amount ta...

$ 161,907,891 42

$1,613,128,705,56
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124,063,250,42 BANK NOTES: B of M bills in circulation, which are payable on . 7.
on presentation, amount to. 6 6 ee ee ee he ee 6,619,026,50 .-
OTHER LIABILITIES: Miscellancous items, representing mainly

commitments undertaken on hehalf of customers in their foreign and oo ee
domestic trade transactions, totalling $16,893,827.58 “yo. 6 6 6% 17,144,653,99 ©

TOTAL OF WHAT THR BofM OWES ITS DEPOSITORS
AND OTHERS eee . * , en . . ee Seer ee See} $1,037,192,386.05 e

TO PAY ALL IT OWRS, THR BofM HAS ‘TOTAL RE-

1,117,604,002.86

333,993.69 SOURCES, AS SHOWN ON THE LEFT-SIDE OF THIS STATE- Bp EME oeraee E
MENT, AMOUNTING TO eo eo * + . ee “4 ’ , © 15715,934,320,49 -
WHICH? MRANS THAT THE Boof M- HAS RESQURCHS, 9: 0 oe
60,417,105,51 OVER AND ABOVE WHAT IT OWES, AMOUNTING TO, $° 78,741,93444
’ “ Look a . es _ st roast wee -_

‘Shi figuee of $78,741,034.44 is. made up-of money: subserihed by the shareholders Se
who own the Bank and, to some extent, of profits which have from time to time heen’
ploughed back into the business to broaden the Bank's servicesy 20° 8 8 oo
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PROFITS: After making provision for contingencies and after pro-
viding $979,840.48 for depreciation of Bank premises, furniture
and equipment, the B of Méreports-a: profit for the twelve. months:

$1,464,326,243,00

1o October 31st, 1945, of i a ar) ‘ . °$5,719,681.58 ae
sialelidacihiaa Taxes under the Income and Excess Profita Taxes Acts are estimated at <, 2y785,000,00-
Leaving anet profitof 6 5 6 6 6 6 ee ee ee eee | $2934,681,58
OF this amount, sharcholders (paid dividends at the rate of 60 cents Py ge
10,571,610,18 a year for cach $1O-share of the Bank) received or will recive . 2,160,000,00.
Thus, the net amount to be added to the balance of profits from
previous years’ aperations is. 6 ee ee eee % 774,681.58
20,772,125.26 Balance in the Profit and Loss Account at October $1st, 1944, ;
aia amounted (O . © © 8 cr So ee PALS B23 :
Leaving the balance in this account at October S1st, 1945, nt. 6 6  $3,188,502.90 >

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