Gastown
neighborhood in Vancouver, British Columbia
Facts
13 properties- Instance of
- neighborhood, historical settlement[4]
- Inception
- 1867[6]
- Official website
- gastown.org[8]
- Website
- gastown.org
- Founded by
- John "Gassy Jack" Deighton
- Located in
- Vancouver
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 49.285°, -123.111°[7]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 49.285°, -123.111°
- Heritage designation
- national historic site of Canada (2009–present)[9]
- Significant place
- Hastings Mill[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gastown
fa گستاون
he גאסטאון
ja ガスタウン
ja ギャスタウン
zh 煤氣鎮
zh 盖斯镇
🔖 Identifiers · 8
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Wintry Gastown.jpg ↗
- Canadian Register of Historic Places ID
- 16124
- Described at URL
- francesbula.com
- Freebase ID
- /m/01x1bm
- GeoNames ID
- 7521579
- National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- 12392
- OpenStreetMap node ID
- 704270667
- Quora topic ID
- Gastown
⛏️ Lake Facts
· open-dataset statements via 4ort-mint
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Vancouver
2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Summary
Gastown is a neighborhood[1].