Victoria's Nine O'clock gun
#1
Posted 30 March 2012 - 10:46 PM
It appears that Victoria had the gun(s) before Vancouver.
This from the History of Vancouver's gun:
We do know that, in 1856, the British government gave 16 cannon to the “provinces of Canada” (Confederation was still 11 years away), that at least three of those cannon got to the Pacific coast after a long trip around the Horn, and that two of them ended up flanking the entrance to the legislative buildings in Victoria.
"Then, too, the ships in the harbor had no means of checking their time and, as Victoria had a gun that was fired at noon for the purpose of regulating ships' chronometers, ship captains asked for one here.”
http://www.vancouver...rchives_gun.htm
#2
Posted 30 March 2012 - 11:41 PM
#3
Posted 31 March 2012 - 12:32 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#4
Posted 31 March 2012 - 02:57 AM
is it not still by "Laurel Point" on the water front. I have not looked lately bu have not heard of it being dismantled. sure someone here knows
It was there last summer...
#5
Posted 31 March 2012 - 08:43 AM
#6
Posted 31 March 2012 - 11:43 AM
#7
Posted 01 April 2012 - 11:33 AM
It's there this morning.
#8
Posted 01 April 2012 - 12:00 PM
#9
Posted 01 April 2012 - 02:32 PM
#10
Posted 01 April 2012 - 10:21 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#11
Posted 01 April 2012 - 10:28 PM
The real question is: if someone were to insert an actual cannonball down the muzzle, what Songhees condo would it hit?
It would take out the operators shack at the Johnson Street Bridge.
#12
Posted 01 April 2012 - 11:15 PM
#13
Posted 02 April 2012 - 07:00 AM
It would take out the operators shack at the Johnson Street Bridge.
I propose a Reagan-era Star Wars satellite defense system, to protect John Luton's wife as she cycles over the new bridge, for just such an eventuality. We can pay for it via a moderate property tax increase.
#14
Posted 02 April 2012 - 07:08 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#15
Posted 20 April 2012 - 03:53 PM
#16
Posted 20 April 2012 - 04:22 PM
My question is what did the Laurel Point Inn do to deserve a cannon being fired to commemorate the opening and did the government really hand out Cannons as late as the 1970s? Surely it had some previous history?
During the Vietnam War, Laurel Point staffers guarded the inner harbour from Viet Cong attacks.
- Bingo likes this
#17
Posted 25 November 2018 - 12:37 PM
Enough of all these silly answers. When I used to stay at my Grandma's on Dallas Road in the 1940's and 1950's, she said the 9 o'clock gun was fired at MacAulay Point (Esquimalt). It usually rattled her windows. But Dad said it was fired from Work Point, which would make sense, being an army base. Long time since anyone picked up this thread. Can someone please come up with a serious and factual answer.
#18
Posted 25 November 2018 - 11:25 PM
I only remember the Canon that fired every day at 12pm from Laurel point back in the 80's. The Canon is still there securely barricaded by a concrete enclosure and iron bars so people can't get in and vandalize it.
#19
Posted 26 November 2018 - 07:10 AM
Can someone please come up with a serious and factual answer.
This link is in the first post of this thread.
http://www.vancouver...rchives_gun.htm
#20
Posted 26 November 2018 - 08:13 AM
I just did a bit of searching on the Laurel Point Canon, and to my surprise it was actually just removed this Fall as part of the revitalization project for that area.
It was first fired on March 31st 1978 at 12pm to commemorate the opening of the Laurel Point In, and the Canon remained there on display until this year.
While I have a memory of a Canon being fired every day at 12 noon (for at least some period of time) in or near the inner harbour, I can't find anything to verify if it was the Laurel Point Canon or a Canon at work point etc.
But if my memory is correct, I do remember physically seeing the Laurel point canon being fired when I was younger back in the early-mid 80's
[attachment=21662:Laurel Point Canon Close Up.jpg]
Edited by Mystic-Pizza, 26 November 2018 - 08:14 AM.
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