A legal document written after the May 1875 death of John Deighton, better known as Gassy Jack, lists the debts of one of the first men to bring liquor to the hardscrabble community of Granville and will go to the highest bidder Saturday in an online auction.
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 in New Westminster and Granville, whose bar in what is now Gastown helped found the future City of Vancouver. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ HO-Brian Grant DuffVANCOUVER -- A glimpse of British Columbia's sometimes seamy history goes to the highest bidder Saturday in an online auction.
"It gives us a good opportunity to talk about history, so there is a demand for these things," Duff said in a telephone interview. "Gassy Jack was pleased with his success here in proto-Vancouver, early Vancouver, and was known to let his family know that he had done well," he said. "Gassy Jack, if he were around, would probably complain that they were taking advantage of him," said Duff.
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