Gastown

Gastown
Neighbourhood
View of Gastown from Maple Tree Square
View of Gastown from Maple Tree Square
Gastown is located in Greater Vancouver Regional District
Gastown
Gastown
Location in Metro Vancouver
Coordinates: 49°17′05″N 123°06′39″W / 49.284688°N 123.110953°W / 49.284688; -123.110953
Country Canada
ProvinceBritish Columbia
CityVancouver
Websitegastown.org

Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest section of the Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.[1][2]

Its historical boundaries – the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks), Carrall Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street – followed the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was Granville, B.I. ("Burrard Inlet"). The official boundary does not include most of Hastings Street except for the Woodward's and Dominion Buildings, and stretches east past Columbia Street, to the laneway running parallel to the west side of Main Street.[3]

  1. ^ "Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan" (PDF). City of Vancouver. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Vancouver Neighbourhoods Map". VanMap. City of Vancouver. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  3. ^ Lynch, Dana (2019-06-26). "Guide to Gastown in Vancouver, BC". TripSavvy. Retrieved 2022-03-05.