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Bob Saunders was one of the people who helped save Gastown 45 years ago when the city thought it was just a rundown slum that should be bulldozed for a freeway.

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Bob Saunders (C) with some of the other investors pose on the train Saunders slept in for a few months in Vancouver's Gastown in this undated photo.JOHN LEHMANN

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An old photo of Vancouver's Gastown and a statue of Jack Gassy in this undated photo.JOHN LEHMANN

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Vancouver's Gastown in this undated photo.JOHN LEHMANN

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Bob Saunders (R) looks over the installation of a gas lamp Vancouver's Gastown in this undated photo.JOHN LEHMANN

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