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Photographs of
Five Houses
Cannon

Cast iron

Lower LaHave
Lunenburg County
Nova Scotia

Located at the intersection of Lower LaHave Road
with Kraut Point Road and Five Houses Road

GPS location:   44°17'06"N   64°20'07"W
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One morning in 1897 a Royal Salute was fired... This Royal Salute probably was fired as part of the vast celebration in June 1897, throughout the British Empire, of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the sixtieth anniversary of her accession to the throne in June 1837. The biggest official event of the Jubilee was the Review at Spithead, England, on Saturday, 26 June 1897. (Might this have been the date of the LaHave River Royal Salute?)

The foundry marked this cannon's weight as 32-1-4.
In what measurement system?

Nowadays, cannon and other forms of artillery from the 1700s and 1800s are nothing more than quaint noise-makers.  We see them only in the movies and on TV, or at occasional demonstrations at historic sites.  In their day, cannons were the most powerful, far-reaching and fearsome weapons available...

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