Gassy Jack
Captain John Deighton was an English sailor and riverboat pilot who arrived in the Vancouver area in 1867, when there was very little there. He founded a saloon in the Gastown part of Vancouver, where he would often get drunk (or gassed), and ramble on for hours. He died in 1875 at the age of 44.
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Gassy Jack
Captain John Deighton was an English sailor and riverboat pilot who arrived in the Vancouver area in 1867, when there was very little there. He founded a saloon in the Gastown part of Vancouver, where he would often get drunk (or gassed), and ramble on for hours. He died in 1875 at the age of 44.
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Uploaded on November 10, 2009
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