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1869
The village of Gastown was then visited after which the party again returned to the Leviathan and proceeded to the logging camp of Mr. Jeremiah Rogers at English Bay, where the admirably constructed logging roads elicited high encomiums.
1952
Vancouver, B.C.--. . . Gas Town. (From Captain John "Gassy Jack" Deighton, builder of a hotel on Burrard Inlet, 1867.)
1964
When the historical arrival of the CPR's first locomotive virtually created Vancouver in 1887, the city was little more than a bush-clearing of 2,000 called by the undignified name of Gastown (after popular Saloon Keeper "Gassy Jack" Deighton).