Filming Location - Gastown

Gastown Vancouver, BC

Gastown is a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia.  History and beauty with a lively past.

Located at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside.  Vancouver's first downtown core, and later known as the skid row area of Vancouver.  Now a hip urban neighborhood hangout. Designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2009. 

Gastown's most famous resident
"Gassy" Jack Deighton

Gastown was named after it's most famous resident "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon serving rough and rowdy off-work loggers and fishermen.

 Alexander was transformed into the Wild West town featured in
Legends of the Fall (Brad Pitt on left).

As a location for the film industry, Gastown offers many possibilities, from the gritty city streets of a city, to towns of the old Wild West.

Below is a list of some of the movies and television programs filmed in Gastown:

• The Killing
• Supernatural
• Fringe
• I, Robot
• Catwoman
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Legends of the Fall
• Good Luck Chuck
• Highlander: The Series
• Messages Deleted
• Sliders
• The NeverEnding Story
• Romeo Must Die
• They Wait
• Kingdom Hospital
• Elegy
• Caprica
• The Final Cut
• Wiseguy
• Unsub
• Top of the Hill
• Booker
• Murphy's Law
• 21 Jump Street
• Stingray
• Hellcats