Legal document of Gassy Jack, one of Vancouver’s founders, up for auction GlobeBC
A handwritten document from 1875, shown in a handout photo, showing the debts left behind following the death of John Deighton, a gold prospector, steamboat pilot and saloon operator.A glimpse of British Columbia’s sometimes seamy history goes to the highest bidder Saturday in an online auction.
Deighton, originally from Hull in England, arrived on the shores of Burrard Inlet after a series of adventures and misadventures that saw him strike out during the Fraser River gold rush and work for a time as a river boat captain.“Gassy Jack left his saloon in the hands of an American friend, who had an enormous Fourth of July party and gave away all the stock. So he was kind of wiped out there,” said Duff.
But the legal document, originally from a collection compiled by stamp and colonial artifacts collector Gerald Wellburn, shows Deighton was strapped for cash when he died, listing debts amounting to almost $5,000.They include $4 amounts owed to several different men, $500 to Capt. John Irving, a wealthy steamship captain in New Westminster, and $1,800 to Deighton’s brother and sister-in-law, who had arrived from England to help him as he suffered health problems.
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