[1] It was a small company-owned asbestos mining town located in the Cassiar Mountains of Northern British Columbia north of Dease Lake.

By the 1970s, Cassiar had a population of 1,500 and had two schools, two churches, a small hospital, theatre, swimming pool, recreation centre and a hockey rink.

11,000 tons of asbestos were exported before the mill burned down on Christmas Day of 2000, effectively halting all production.

[3] 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.