Canada's major port on the Pacific Coast began as a rough collection of wooden houses clustered around a saloon next to a sawmill. The mill, built by Captain Edward Stamp, began cutting lumber in 1867. That same year Gassy Jack Deighton opened his saloon with two chairs and a barrel of whisky and Gastown was on the map. For nine years it grew and prospered, until 1886 when the entire town burned down. Less than a year later it had been rebuilt, renamed Vancouver, and the first train of the Canadian Pacific Railroad had connected the city to eastern Canada.


PILOT tows ROBERT KERR into Burrard Inlet.
September 7, 1885

Watercolor 14” x 21”

Gastown Before the Fire

Watercolor 22" x 30"

Hastings Mill Moonlight.
1887

Watercolor 19" x 29"

Getting Under Way - Hastings Mill.
1890

Watercolor 14" x 21"

Mailboat - CPR warf, Vancouver.
1887

Watercolor 21" x 29"

Morning Mist – Hastings Mill

Watercolor 11” x 22”