Hydrographic Surveying and

Charting of British Columbia waters and the

Canadian Western Arctic

ByThomas D.W. McCulloch

1953 to 1967Barry Lusk Productions

General Charts of the British Columbia Coast and inland waters

The “Clash of 53” – a peculiar group!!The author. Thomas McCulloch

Porcher Island and Kitkatla Inlet. Surveys of 1953

Kitkatla Inlet and the 28 foot tides were awe

inspiring to see.

Vancouver Island and the inside passage

Vancouver Island Inside Passage and the Broughton archipelago

The peace and tranquility of surveys in Knight Inlet

Hydrographic Activities on the West Coast of British Columbia

Queen Charlotte Islands 1955

Wm. J. Stewart, Burrard Inlet 1954Captain George Billard Master Wm. J. Stewart

1953-62

The old covered wagon ready for action

Queen Charlotte Is. “Curlew” 1956. A motley

crew

Butedale- Sundaymail Day, 1955. Charlie Poole ,Sandy Sandilands, Ralph Wills, Al

Ages

Inshore and off shore survey areas in the

Queen Charlotte Islands 1954 to 1957(4 to 5 months each of these years

were spent aboard the Wm. J. Stewart)

Operational Area In the Queen

Charlotte’s 1954

Operational Area in the Queen Charlotte’s 1955

Operational Area in the Queen

Charlotte’s 1956/57

Copper Island Green Slave Decca 6F site.

A happy bunch of hydrographic

surveyors? Ward Room Wm J.

Stewart, 1954

Operational area 1954

Cumshewa Inlet

Operational area 1955 Selwyn

Inlet

Operational area 1956/57.

Skincuttle Inlet

Operational area out of

Prince Rupert in the 1953’s

McKenney Island Decca

site in the 1950/1960’s

Decca Station on McKenney Island 1957

Decca surveys were conducted in Hecate Strait from 1953 to

1961

McKenney Island. Purple Slave. Decca

6F site

Copper Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Decca 6F Station. Established 1957

Decca surveys in Hecate strait required electronic positioning of the ship. Sites ashore were cleared by hand to facilitate shore station’s.

“A Long Journey”

4047 nautical miles between Victoria and Tuktoyaktuk

Canada’s Western Arctic

CSS Richardson 1962 Canada’s Western Arctic

CCG Camsell towing Richardson 1967

RCMP launch Spalding1961 US Coastguard Icebreaker

“Storis” 1958 in Cambridge Bay

US Coastguard icebreaker “North Wind off Point

Barrow- 1967

14,000 horse power ride for “Richardson” astern of

“Camsell” and “Northwind”

This Ends my Presentation

15 years of hard but satisfying hydrographic

surveying

Thank you for your attention

Visual presentation prepared by Lusk Hydrographic Expertise S.P.

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