LOOKOUT BELOW!

A newspaper piece of
Bernard Bowers.

 Despite the common assumption that such a secluded area would be cut-off from the rest of Canada (as well as the world), the Islands were fairly up-to-date with the precautions of the Second World War. Bernard Bowers, a local businessman from Brier Island had been registered to have a radio station for the area to alert the residents of the Islands, as well as the higher authorities of the time of air crafts flying over.

Bowers' certification to operate
a radio station.

The following clippings are from the Chronicle Herald (from the early 1940s) show how to identify air-crafts from their silhouettes-- both Allied and Axis Powers' countries. Clippings donated by the Bowers Family.

You can find documents at the Islands Archives of the different planes that were recorded during World War II. These "Official Observer Reports" contain the directions of which the planes were heading from, how many engines were identified and other characteristics of the particular flying crafts.

Click here for several types of planes that people were to be on the look out for. Clippings taken from the Chronicle Herald.