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31 December 20208 February 2021 Vancouver History

Vancouver’s Nine O’Clock Gun

It’s been hit by lightning, plugged with rocks, short-circuited, silenced by work stoppages and even (briefly) stolen but Vancouver’s famed old Nine O’Clock Gun has—as faithfully as circumstances have allowed—boomed out the time of day from its home in Stanley Park for 107 years now. The early life of this famed 12-pounder muzzle-loaded naval cannon is vaguely known. Thanks to an inscription on the gun itself, we know it was made by H & C King in 1816……

Mayors of Vancouver

by Donna Jean MacKinnon NOTE: No living mayors are listed here. For the record, the mayors following William Rathie (1963-66)

Some buildings in Atlin during the Klondike Gold Rush [AM54-S4-: Out P527.1]

Board of Trade

27 January 202116 July 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1901

More on the Gold Rush The year began for the Board, said the January 9th Province, with a continuation of its

Phillips armoured submarine telephone cable for B.C. Telephone on a C.P.R. freight car. [City of Vancouver Archives CVA 1184-2905]

Board of Trade

27 January 20215 February 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1902

Missing material It should be noted that, because of the condition of some of the newspaper microfilms used as the

Boat in the First Narrows circa 191? [City of Vancouver Archives AM1592-1-S9-F74-: 2011-092.3435]

Board of Trade

27 January 20215 February 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1906

Post Office Blues The design of the new post office [which today is the clock-topped building, part of the Sinclair