WW I machine-guns, 1870s cannons unearthed at PNE grounds in Vancouver [Video]

German machine-guns and 19th century cannons are among the latest military artifacts unearthed by construction crews at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) in Vancouver.

Crews working to construct the PNE’s new amphitheatre in Hastings Park first uncovered a piece of wartime material in late March — a captured First World War-era German howitzer. The new discoveries came a month later, on April 23, during excavation work.

Among the latest artifacts found are four German machine-guns from the First World War.

“What we’ve been able to determine is that two of these machine-guns were allocated to South Vancouver as war trophies,” James Calhoun, a curator and archivist with the Vancouver-based Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, told CBC News.

WATCH | Machine-guns, cannons unearthed in Hastings Park: A field gun from the First World War is among the latest military artifacts discovered during amphitheatre construction at Vancouver’s PNE grounds. Michelle Morton reports on the findings and what they reveal about the …