History of Vancouver, BC

Lumbering was the first factory near Burrard Inlet, now the Vancouver seaport. The first lumber mill came into operation in 1863 in Moodyville, a planned building built by American carpenter Sell "Sue" Moody. In 1915, it expanded as a municipality and was renamed "North Vancouver"; the name Moodyville still operates in the Lower Lonsdale region, however as a marketing name rather than a common use (proper Moodyville was a few blocks east). The first wooden shipment took place in 1865; the logs were exported to Australia. In 1867, the first sawmill on the southern coast of Burrard Inlet, Stamp's Mill, began to produce timber at the foot of Dunlevy Avenue in Vancouver. The milling site was originally planned at Brockton Point in what is now Stanley Park, but the Brockton Point site proved uninhabitable due to the currents near the sandals making it difficult to reach the harbor. [Citation] The world's largest trees grew just south of the shores of False Creek and English Bay and supplied (among other things) logs for the world's airspace and the ever-growing Royal Navy fleet. assist with the local tick industry. Initially, S Squamish usually did not work in mills.

A former river pilot, John (Jack) Deighton, set up a small balloon (24 'x 12') on the beach about a mile west of the sawmill in 1867 where the mill's equipment and its "dry" policies ended. His place was popular and followed by a well-dressed trail between the mill and the saloon - this is modern Alexander Street. Deighton's nickname, Gassy Jack, came about because he was known as a very talkative person, or "gassy". A handful of men began living near the salon and the "residence" soon became known as Gassy's Town, which was soon reduced to "Gastown". In 1870, the colonial government of British Columbia took note of this growing settlement and sent a state inspector to build a legal settlement called Granville, in honor of the British Colonial Secretary, Lord Granville, even though it was still known as Gastown (the name still exists in that part of