Historical landmark
Nine O'Clock Gun
Stanley Park Dr, Vancouver, BC V6G 3E2
Antique naval cannon on the seawall, fired every night at nine to mark the hour since the eighteen nineties.
This guide to the Nine O'Clock Gun in Stanley Park, Vancouver, opens on a night in 1969 when a fifteen-hundred-pound naval cannon disappeared without a trace, leaving police baffled until a ransom note demanded a donation to the Children's Hospital in exchange for its return. You'll hear who turned out to be behind the theft and how ordinary Vancouverites responded once the story got out. The cannon itself dates to 1816 and has marked nine o'clock here since the 1890s.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.