1934 - N.P. Jensen, one of the first settlers in the community died
Nov. 27...A gravestone marks his grave at the Sand neck. Some of
the Light keepers have worked at keeping the grave site in neat
order. This was the man who worked so hard at the dykes and the
man who build the heavy driftwood fence at the Sand neck.
1937 - March 14, Johanne (Hannah) Frederiksen died (daughter
of N. P. Jensen) and buried at Alert Bay. Her whole life since a
young girl had been spent at Cape Scott.
1939 - Hans and Lars Frederiksen Drowned while crossing to the
Scott Islands on their boat "the Barnacle" in early Feb. (sons of
Johanne and Theodore). An unexpected storm came up quickly.
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The Canadian and US governments decided Cape Scott would be an excellent place for a radar station, and so the air force
expropriated land, moved temporary tents onto the Sand
neck and took over one room in the Frederiksen house nearby. |
| Theo Frederiksen was very upset because the family's use of its land was greatly restricted.
Photo courtesy Frederiksen family. |
1942 - The Canadian Gov't along with the Americans decided that
the Sand neck at the Cape would be an excellent place to place a
radar station. The Frederiksens were given notice that their land -
2 quarter sections at the Sand neck were being expropriated and the
gov't would move them out. The air force arrived in early summer.
One person moved into the house with the Frederiksens, and the
others camped in tents in the pasture. Theodore was very upset
with it all. They were quite restricted on where they could walk.
The family left in November, moving to Nanoose Bay. At this
time Pete and Elsie Hersley and children, Alfred Spencer -
Postmaster and keeper of the Cape Scott library, Dorothy and Billy
Gibbs and the Donaldsons still lived in the lower area of the
settlement. This radar station was disbanded on June 19, 1945.
There was a brief bit of activity following the closing of the
military base. The plan was to use the Air force buildings and the
gov't had agreed to helping with the construction of a breakwater.
Twelve families arrived but soon left, disillusioned by what they
found, not quite the utopia they'd hoped for.
1959/60 - A lighthouse was erected at Cape Scott. The materials
for the building was brought in by Carl Botel with his boat the
"Cliff Point" and his boat stayed anchored at the Lagoon, Carl
cooked for the workers and the spent the nights on the boat. The
first lightkeepers were the Gardners.
1962 - Theodore Frederiksen died, his ashes were buried under the
old rhododendron beside their house on the North end of the
Sand neck. Later one of the lighthouse keepers, unknowing it
marked a grave, moved the rhodo to the lighthouse. Theodore
helped with the sawmill and the building of the first "Cape Scott".
He taught his children music, made two violins out of wood from
the Cape and built numerous small boats.
The last trap lines in the Cape Scott area were let go in the 1960's -
Lyle McRae had held the Guise bay, around the Cape to
Shuttleworth Bight and Carl Botel was the last person to hold the
trap line which started at Guise Bay running South down the coast
to the Lagoon and around it and the proceeding to the south end of
Lowrie Bay.
1973 - Cape Scott Park was established and was composed of
37,239 acres of land. More area was added in 1995 giving the
Park a total of 54, 907 acres in all.
1988 - During August Violet Wamer's (nee Wadey) ashes were
packed in by her family and scattered on the beach at Guise Bay
where Violet and her husband built their home.
