Vancouver British Columbia
The Vancouver area was first inhabited by the Salish Indians. In 1867, a white town sprang up around the bar of one ‘Gassy’ Jack Deighton, so named for his tendency to talk – or so the story goes. The settlement became known as Gastown. After being linked by rail to eastern Canada, the town took its name from the British explorer Captain George Vancouver, who spent all of a single day on the site in 1792. In 1887 the Canadian Pacific Railway’s first train choo-chooed through the city, the first ship docked from China, and Vancouver began its boom as a trading centre and transportation hub.
