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Carried here lock, stock, and barrel from downtown in the 1930s, this is the town’s oldest surviving building — a post office, general store, and the only remnant from the original Gastown to have escaped the 1886 fire.
Duly renewed, then, make your way towards the harbor and railyards, to Gastown (between Water and Hastings), the resuscitated red-brick, cobbled-street district of Vancouver’s beginnings.
In keeping with this easy-going attitude, the city was originally known as Gastown, after saloon-keeper “Gassy Jack” Deighton, who looked after the needs of pioneer lumbermen and sailors in the 1860s.