Cassiar is a ghost town in British Columbia , Canada . It was a small company-owned asbestos mining town located in the Cassiar Mountains of Northern British Columbia north of Dease Lake .
18-527: [REDACTED] Look up cassiar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cassiar may refer to: Cassiar, British Columbia , a ghost town in northern British Columbia Stewart-Cassiar Highway , the northwesternmost highway in British Columbia Cassiar Mountains , in northern British Columbia and southern Yukon Cassiar Land District ,
36-759: A cadastral survey division of British Columbia Cassiar River , a tributary of the Turnagain River Cassiar Tunnel (sometimes called the Cassiar Connector), a highway traffic tunnel on the Trans-Canada Highway in Vancouver, British Columbia Cassiar (electoral district) , a former provincial electoral district in northern British Columbia Cassiar Gold Rush (1873), a gold rush in British Columbia Cassiar Country ,
54-535: A historical region in British Columbia See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "cassiar" on Misplaced Pages. Cassia (disambiguation) Kaskian (disambiguation) , a term that derives Cassiar Kaskas (disambiguation) , a term that derives Cassiar Kaska (disambiguation) , a term that derives Cassiar All pages with titles beginning with Cassiar All pages with titles containing Cassiar Topics referred to by
72-643: A roadway extended south from the Alaska Highway to serve the Cassiar mining district , eventually reaching Dease Lake and joining a road to Telegraph Creek (sometimes referred to as Highway 51 , but not signed as such). To the south, logging roads extended north almost as far as Meziadin Junction. By 1968, the route of what is now 37A extended past Meziadin Junction north. This was done to allow for asbestos from Cassiar to be shipped to market via sea from Stewart . By
90-411: A small hospital, theatre, swimming pool, recreation centre and a hockey rink. By the early 1990s, diminished demand for asbestos and expensive complications faced after converting from an open-pit mine to an underground mine made the continued operation of the mine unprofitable. In 1992, Cassiar Asbestos decided to close the mine and liquidate its assets, including the town of Cassiar itself. Most of
108-485: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cassiar, British Columbia The discovery of asbestos in the area in 1950 led to the founding of the Cassiar Asbestos Company in the following year. The town was established in 1952, the same year the mining operation began. By the 1970s, Cassiar had a population of 1,500 and had two schools, two churches,
126-577: Is the northwesternmost highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia . A scenic route through some of the province's most isolated areas, the highway first gained designation as British Columbia Highway 37 in the year 1975. At that time, its southern terminus was at the community of New Hazelton on the BC Highway 16 (the Yellowhead Highway ). In 1975, with the completion of a new bridge over
144-600: The Kitimat River , the highway's Yellowhead junction was relocated to a point on Highway 16 just south of the site of Kitwanga . Highway 37 was then extended south to Kitimat in 1986 superseding what was then designated Highway 25 . At the north end, the highway briefly stretches into the Yukon , becoming Yukon Highway 37 . Highway 37 starts its 874 km (543 mi) journey in the south at Kitimat. 59 km (37 mi) north, Highway 37 reaches Terrace, where it merges onto
162-612: The Skeena Mountains for 333 km (207 mi) to the Continental Divide communities of Eddontenajon , Iskut and Dease Lake , which straddles the Stikine and Dease River basins. Another 116 km (72 mi) north and Highway 37 reaches Jade City , where a junction to the former asbestos -mining community of Cassiar is located. North of Jade City, Highway 37 travels another 120 km (75 mi) to its crossing of
180-527: The Yellowhead Highway . The Yellowhead coincides with Highway 37 east for 91 km (57 mi) to Kitwanga Junction, where the Yellowhead diverges east. North of the Yellowhead's Kitwanga junction, Highway 37 travels 76 km (47 mi) to Cranberry Junction , and then another 80 km (50 mi) north to Meziadin Junction , where Highway 37A begins and heads west via Bear River Pass to Stewart and Hyder, Alaska . Highway 37 travels north through
198-574: The 1970s. The completion of a new bridge over the Skeena River at Kitwanga in Mid-November 1975 gave better access to the Yellowhead Highway . Work continued through the mid-to-late 70s to upgrade the stretch of highway. The Highway 37 corridor is slated for infrastructure enhancements as resource extraction activities increase in the Northwest region of British Columbia. The Northwest Transmission Line
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#1732845268295216-594: The 60th parallel into the Yukon Territory, becoming Yukon Highway 37 and terminating at a junction with the Alaska Highway near Upper Liard just 3.4 km (2.1 mi) later. According to the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, "Most of the route is hard surface (either pavement or sealcoat) with approximately 1 km (0.6 mi) of gravel." The Highway 37 of today is the result of highway extension projects began in 1959. Originally,
234-481: The church following in 2015. The tramline which transported ore from the mine down the mountainside to the mill was purchased in the auction; however, the buyer left it, and it still stands. The four old apartment blocks at the east end of town are operational for ongoing site reclamation work. As of November 2006, they were being used by mining exploration companies conducting underground gold mining at Table Mountain (formerly Erickson Gold) and base metal exploration in
252-413: The contents of the town, including a few houses, were auctioned off and trucked away. Most of the remaining dwellings were bulldozed and burned to the ground. The mill was briefly reactivated in 1999 by Cassiar Chrysotile Inc which had a reclamation permit to clean up the site. 11,000 tons of asbestos were exported before the mill burned down on Christmas Day of 2000, effectively halting all production. Today
270-650: The immediate area. There was also seasonal jade mining from the Cassiar waste dumps. Cassiar has a subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfc ) with long, cold, and snowy winters and short, cool summers. British Columbia Highway 37 The Stewart–Cassiar Highway , also known as the Dease Lake Highway and the Stikine Highway as well as the Thornhill –Kitimat Highway from Kitimat to Thornhill ,
288-407: The middle of 1972, only a few miles remained to be built between Meziadin Junction and Iskut . Four bicyclists, whose journey from Alaska to Montana was chronicled in a May 1973 National Geographic article, braved the muddy gap. Once this route was completed, travelers only had to contend with limited hours for using the logging roads south of Meziadin Junction, roads which were upgraded during
306-450: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cassiar . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassiar&oldid=1025175562 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
324-473: The streets are bare and flowers bloom where the houses once stood. Residents living between the townsite and the Stewart-Cassiar Highway , and on the highway itself, who originally obtained phone service from the Cassiar exchange, were moved to the nearby Good Hope Lake exchange in the fall of 2006 and the Cassiar exchange shut down. Neglected and in disrepair, the hockey arena collapsed in 2008, with
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