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Gastown Hist. 
n. See 1964 quote.
- 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 (1965) 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).
- 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.