Gastown is a national historic site in
Vancouver,
British Columbia, at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the
Downtown Eastside. Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the
CPR tracks), Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870
townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was
Granville, B.I. ("Burrard Inlet"). The official boundary does not include most of Hastings Street except for the
Woodward's and
Dominion Buildings, and stretches east past Columbia St., to the laneway running parallel to the west side of Main Street.