Day 13
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Vancouver, Canada (we dock at 7 am)

"Gassy Jack" Deighton saw a chance to make money from the miners on their way to the Yukon and the saloon he built became the focus of the shanty town known as Gastown. From here, modern Vancouver was born - Canada's third largest city. The government persuaded the settlers to change the name of the town to Vancouver, after Captain George Vancouver, who sailed the area's waters in 1792. Today Vancouver is a cosmopolitan city with a personality all its own.

Off to the airport.

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Corrections etc. R. Taylor