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Gastown is the oldest neighbourhood in Vancouver, the place where the city began, a district of red-brick warehouses, cobblestone streets and Victorian commercial buildings that has been restored and revived into one of the most atmospheric quarters of the modern city. Its origins lie in a riverside saloon opened in 1867 by a talkative steamboat captain named John Deighton, nicknamed Gassy Jack for his endless stories, around whose establishment a small settlement grew that took the name Gastown...