The Cassiar Road - The Story of a Mine on a Mountain Top: A film from 1960 @BCHistory
The Cassiar Road - The Story of a Mine on a Mountain Top: A film from 1960  @BCHistory
Uploaded January 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is short promotional film about the town of Cassiar made in 1960.

Cassiar was a town created for the Asbestos mine which operated from 1952 to 1992. Now there is nothing left of the town

Cassiar was located in the northern most Rocky Mountains just a bit west of Highway 37

The film was made by Jack Chisholm

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