Word: deightons
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...Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver. As the world's trade with Japan and China increased and the Panama Canal made possible water shipment of Canadian wheat, Vancouver's magnificent harbor became a key port. Today some of the West...