City of Vancouver Archives, St Pk P121. Leonard Frank photo.
1894
Nine O’clock Gun
Nine o’clock gun. A cannon was installed in Stanley Park in this shed near Brockton Point in 1894. Every evening at nine o’clock the gun was fired by a telegraph operator typing a key to close the circuit. The shed was demolished in 1936 and the mechanism was modernized, but the Nine O’Clock Gun still booms out across Burrard Inlet every evening.
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