John Deighton, better known as "Gassy Jack", was a bar-owner in British Columbia.
17 Facts About John Deighton
2.
John Deighton signed up to work a new clipper Invincible that could sail 400 miles a day and made the trip in only 115 days.
3.
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush had begun and John Deighton sailed north along with thousands of others.
4.
The harsh winter took its toll on the prospectors but John Deighton stayed for 5 years.
5.
Local boats were built to meet this need and John Deighton piloted steamships and sternwheelers on the Fraser River for several years.
6.
In 1867, John Deighton opened a bar on the south side of Burrard Inlet at the behest of his old friend, Captain Edward Stamp, the owner of the Hastings Mill.
7.
John Deighton later named it the Globe Saloon in memory of his previous bar in New Westminster.
8.
John Deighton came to the area with little more than $6 to his name, a few simple pieces of furniture, his Indigenous wife, and a yellow dog.
9.
John Deighton's patrons were mainly sailors and workers from the nearby sawmill.
10.
When business dwindled there, John Deighton tried to acquire 20 waterfront acres near Moody's Mill and build a new saloon there.
11.
John Deighton bought a nearby lot for $135 at the south-west corner of Carrall and Water Streets, where he built John Deighton House.
12.
John Deighton was first married to a Squamish woman, whose name is currently unknown.
13.
John Deighton's will left everything to his four-year-old son, but Richard died in November 1875 before the will was probated.
14.
John Deighton returned to the North Shore and married Billy Williams, who died in 1897.
15.
John Deighton is interred at the Fraser Cemetery in New Westminster, British Columbia.
16.
John Deighton was known as Gassy Jack because of his talkative nature and his penchant for storytelling.
17.
The John Deighton House was later burned in the Great Vancouver Fire of June 1886.