Gastown

This guide to Gastown in Vancouver opens in 2022, the day protesters pulled down the neighborhood's bronze statue of Gassy Jack, and asks what got left off the plaque about the whiskey trader who gave the district its name. It traces John Deighton's 1867 arrival by canoe and the saloon he built in a single day to win over the loggers already camped on the shoreline. Look down at the empty pedestal in Maple Tree Square, where the argument over whose history gets remembered still plays out.