Gastown. Photo: Destination Vancouver/Nelson Mouellic
On the world scale, Vancouver is a young city at 138 years old. But a lot has changed since our city was founded. Time travel to the past at museums, neighbourhoods, parks, and historic buildings around Vancouver.
Wander Through Historic Gastown
Located in downtown Vancouver, Gastown is the oldest neighbourhood in Vancouver. John “Gassy Jack” Deighton opened the city’s first saloon in 1867, giving the area the nickname it still holds. Many historic brick buildings survive from that time, thanks in part to a successful 1960s campaign to block the construction of a freeway through
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