The Globe and Mail - McGill gets the gift of time
Bob Rodgers had time on his hands on Monday. In fact, he had 10 o’clock in his right hand and his left hand on 3. The expert clock installer stood inside a cramped tower at one of downtown Montreal’s busiest intersections on a historic mission: bringing an iconic clock set and its Big Ben chimes into working order at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ – a piece of lost time, brought back to life in a digital age.
“Once again,” quipped Mr. Rodgers, a clock specialist from Pennsylvania, “Ď㽶ĘÓƵ will be on time.”
On Friday, [at 4:30 pm] to the accompaniment of bagpipers, the university will restart the four-faced clock at its landmark front gates, and chimes will be heard regularly on Sherbrooke Street and McGill College Avenue in the heart of Montreal for the first time in more than 75 years.
