Four sisters reminisced on their childhood as they shot the noon day gun at Signal Hill, Sunday afternoon.
Growing up on Signal Hill, the sisters—who are now in their late 70s and 80s—remember visiting their father who worked at Cabot Tower. He was one of the first people to work as a wireless operator on the second floor of the tower in 1933.
Patricia Kelly, one of the sisters, no longer lives in Newfoundland and she was planning a vacation to visit her family in the province.
With plans falling together and word of a daily noon gun fire, the four decided that is what they wanted to do, in order to make a visit to their old stomping grounds extra special.
Four sisters who grew up on Signal Hill are together in St. John’s to shoot of the noon gun. @VOCMNEWS pic.twitter.com/NN67XpFxue
— Victoria Battcock (@VicBattcockVOCM) July 21, 2019
Another sister, Sheila, says things all came together, and that it was wonderfully exciting.
The house where they grew up no longer stands, but the group carried family photos with them that showed the family members sitting by their home with Cabot Tower directly behind them.
When the war started, they were evicted from their home, but the family stuck around in the east end and their dad continued his work at the tower.
Ann says after Pearl Harbour in 1941, the American forces took over the hill. After that, the house was demolished, and nobody knew they had lived there.
