Creator of Vancouver’s Gastown steam clock dies [Video]

Raymond Saunders, the creator of the steam clock in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood, died Saturday at the age of 83, according to a family member.

Saunders built and serviced outdoor clocks in B.C. and around the world for more than four decades. 

He was best known for the Gastown clock, which was built in 1977 and has become an oft-photographed and much-discussed tourist attraction.  

Daughter Julia Saunders remembers her father as a “kind, generous, funny” man.

She said she plans to put some flowers inside the steam clock and post a note to let the Downtown Eastside community know about her father’s passing. 

“It’s an honour to to be his daughter and to see what he’s contributed to the world,” she said.

WATCH | Keeping time in Gastown : Raymond Saunders shows how he adjusts time on the steam clock he built in the Gastown neighbourhood in the 1970s.

Saunders told CBC News on the clock’s 40th anniversary that it was the first steam clock he had ever …