Vancouver's Old-Time Scoundrels: Gassy Jack's Exploits and Other Skuduggery

Ann Turner is the financial and budget manager of the University of
British Columbia Library.

John “Gassy Jack” Deighton was one of Vancouver’s earliest and
most colourful entrepreneurs. The young city literally grew up around
him and his Globe Saloon. He was a legend in his own time, and the
legend continues to the present day as his statue presides over
Vancouver’s Gastown district. This volume of the Amazing Stories
popular-history series fills in the documented details of his life and
times, including the sometimes questionable business and political
activities of Jack and his associates as they clawed a living from the
wilderness. The book is an easy and entertaining introduction to
Vancouver’s early days.