Gastown

Gastown is an area of Vancouver, British Columbia, located between Downtown and the Downtown Eastside.

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Gastown is Vancouver's first downtown core and is named after "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a British settler who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon. The town soon prospered as the site of a sawmill, a seaport, and general trade and commerce.

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In 1886, the town was incorporated as the City of Vancouver. It fell victim to the "Great Vancouver Fire" that same year, losing all but two of its buildings. Vancouver was completely rebuilt and continued to thrive until the Great Depression in the 1920s, after which Gastown, now just a neighbourhood of the larger city, fell into decline and disrepair until the 1960s. Citizens concerned with preserving Gastown's distinctive and historic architecture convinced the provincial government to declare the area a historical site in 1971, protecting its heritage buildings to this day.

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