Cassiar is a ghost town in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It was a small company-owned mining town nestled in the Cassiar Mountain Range of Northern British Columbia. After forty years of operation, the mine was unexpectedly forced to close in 1992. The closure was driven by a combination of factors including diminished demand for asbestos and expensive complications faced after converting from an open-pit mine to an underground mine. Most of the contents of the town, including a few houses, were sold off and trucked away. Most of the houses were bull-dozed and burned to the ground. Today the streets are bare and flowers bloom where the houses once stood.

The town, which had a population of 1,500 in its heyday, had a school, two churches, a small hospital, a theatre, swimming pool, recreation centre and a hockey rink. Though neglected and now in disrepair the Catholic Church and hockey arena were still standing in 2005. The tramline which transported ore from the mine down the mountainside to the mill was purchased in the auction but the buyer left it and it still stands.

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• Cassiar... do you remember?

Ghost towns in British Columbia