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.
The Cannery whistle so familiar to our #Steveston neighbours will blow four times a day at 10am, 12noon, 5pm, and now at 7pm in appreciation for all the #HealthcareHeroes and everyone who works to keep our essential services running. #RichmondBC pic.twitter.com/syfTqfzWQ4
— Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society (@gogcannery) April 1, 2020
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