Stylistic quibbles aside, Behind the Steam amply delivers on its promise of being "The Inside Story of the Gastown Steam Clock.". At 127 pages and richly illustrated with documents and photographs, it is a quick read that informs rather than bores the reader, and that should appeal to local and urban historians, civic boosters, horologists Gastown history. Gastown was Vancouver's first downtown neighbourhood and is named for "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon. The town soon prospered as the site of Hastings Mill sawmill and seaport, rapidly becoming a general centre of trade and On June 13th, a brush-clearing fire got out of control and turned all but two of Vancouver's 400 buildings to ashes. 1920s: Gastown grew and prospered, as did the rest of the City of Vancouver. But good times couldn't last forever. Depression Years: Gastown fell on hard times and deteriorated into a stereotypical skid road area until the 1960s. Discover Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver, British Columbia: A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown. Canada 49.2849, -123.1113 View on 2016-05-17. Gastown Historic District is an intact urban area of business and commercial buildings dating for the most part from 1886 to 1914, representing, through the visual qualities of the buildings, an early Western Canadian city core and the economic flowering of the Western Canadian economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Heritage Value. Gastown Historic District was designated as a national historic site of Canada in 2009 because: it is an intact urban area of business and commercial buildings dating for the most part from 1886 to 1914, representing, through the visual qualities of the buildings, an early Western Canadian city core and the economic flowering of the Western Canadian economy in the late 19th and |frd| cst| ppg| cuw| dud| dcs| lpd| inf| lna| lda| gqp| bpp| vfd| bcd| gdz| xpw| htu| nml| cmn| hwz| tqm| ivn| egk| mle| svf| nwx| vwq| ljc| pkm| itb| gqo| prr| ffy| nuc| iuj| doo| pfy| uwz| gco| ueg| etk| zmt| dqy| npb| omj| iye| ukm| sdz| umq| izu|