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Steveston’s Gulf of Georgia Cannery whistle to sound at 7 p.m. in support of healthcare workers

The Gulf of Georgia Cannery will be joining in the nightly salute to healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cannery’s whistle will now blow at 7 p.m.
Kirsten Clarke
Cannery
Built in 1894 and preserved as a national historic site in the early 1980s, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston was one of the largest to operate along the waterfront. Flickr photo. Since 1986, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society has, along with support from Parks Canada, been responsible for the site and is today headed up by chair Dave Semple.

The Gulf of Georgia Cannery will be joining in the nightly salute to healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The cannery’s whistle will now blow at 7 p.m. – in addition to its thrice-daily bellows – in appreciation for frontline and health care workers, according to a Twitter post by the cannery society.

Currently, the whistle, which bellows out compressed air, blows three times a day – at 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., to mark opening, lunch and closing of the museum.

A similar move has been made in Vancouver, where the city’s park board announced the Nine O’clock Gun would be changing its schedule to fire at 7 p.m. in honour of health-care workers, through the end of April. The gun, located in Stanley Park, normally fires at 9 p.m. daily.