Example sentences for: gastown

How can you use “gastown” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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