Patrick Powers contributed: > >>By the way, the NASS registry shows no sundials in British Columbia (even >in >Vancouver). Why?< > >I guess NASS has fewer Members there...There is a new 'sundial bridge' >being built near Vancouver and the State library (I think) has had one >since 1959... There must be others but I don't know of them...
My week in Vancouver after the NASS conference in Montreal revealed not a single sundial and my long-resident friends didn't know of any. The city does have a steam clock which marks the hours and quarters with Westminster chimes on five steam whistles but no sundials that I found. Careful examination seemed to suggest that, although the small steam engine is still in place and 'operating', the clock is now wound by some other source; an electric motor perhaps?...or am I wrong? The steam 'chimes' are real enough however. Tony Moss -
