Gastown Steam Clock

This guide to the Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver opens with the question a man in a flat cap loves to ask tourists outside it: how old do you think this clock is? It traces the answer back to Ray Saunders, a young clockmaker who built it from scratch in 1977 to hide an unglamorous steam grate on this corner, borrowing its bones from a grandfather clock and its chime from Big Ben. Listen for the steam still rising from the little chimney on top, right on the hour.