Priceless: More cannons, century-old machine guns discovered at PNE in Vancouver [Video]

A month after work crews dug up a piece of Canadian military history at the PNE in Vancouver, officials say they’ve found more — and believe the area could yet prove to be a goldmine for historians.

On March 27, crews building the new Freedom Mobile Arch amphitheatre discovered what appeared to be a “cannon.”

It turned out to be a captured German Howitzer from the First World War, taken as a trophy by Canadian soldiers.

Canadian troops actually brought a number of such weapons home, which were staged around the city for display in the years after the war, according to James Calhoun, curator for the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum.

The guns were moved to Hastings Park in the 1930s with plans to make a permanent display, but the Great Depression scuttled that plan.

By the 1940s, they were viewed as “junk,” he said, and it’s believed they …