Meziadin Radio site

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NASS LIGHT ROUTE
MICROWAVE SYSTEM
CHAPTER #5

MEZIADIN
RADIO SITE

Located at Lat 56-05-05 and Long 129-17-23

Meziadin was originally just a Combination
Radio and Living Quarters building,
and Diesel room attached with an unheated breeze-way.
Site installed in 1966 by Lenkurt Electric.
Originally the site was to be at the edge of Meziadin lake,
but legend has it,
the cat dragging the site into place,
got bogged down in the swamps in the area,
and this then became the Meziadin radio site.
A proper living-quarter building
was built by Herman Wiebe and Rolly Anderson.
They called it the “Meziadin Arms”.
Later on this one room building was renovated into 3 rooms,
and the porch was converted to a kitchen.
Indoor bathroom was added with a Humus toilet,
that very seldom worked due to lack of moisture,
from only 1 month visits,
but was way better than the outdoor one before that!
The site was originally equipped with Lenkurt 74 radios,
and Lenkurt 71 radios,
with no battery back-up.
Meziadin was accessed off of Highway 37, via a 900 ft road

Meziadin 1972
Before the Cabin was renovated
Notice just a few environmental hazards those days!

Original Living Quarters
It was one large empty room
with 2 sets of bunk beds on one side, kitchen on the other.

Ron Strumecki and Chuck Lequereux at the kitchen sink,
in the original layout, built by Rolly Anderson and Herman Wiebe.

Me, myself and I in the corner, (when I had hair)

Renovation of the Living Quarters.
The front porch area was turned into the kitchen and bathroom.

Ron Strucmecki, Chuck Lequereux hard at work,
being "supervised" by Don Parr.

Meziadin Garage, located just off Highway 37,
at the start of the site access road.

Art Kerr driving the machine out

Thiokol Spryte Snow Cat views
Art must have had to do some work on the machine.

Helicopter landing at Meziadin

Various views and layouts of the Meziadin site.

Fishing on Meziadin Lake

Road To Stewart,
40 miles of gravel, to the liquor store or bar!!

Heading from Stewart to Meziadin, view of Meziadin Lake.

Most of the pictures above, courtesy Brian Wolfe, Ladysmith BC
note- Some are scanned slides, so quality is not as good as original,
My fault, not Brian's!