This is so emotional watching that video. Me , my husband and my brother spent there over a year. We had s beautiful time there, met wonderful people, felt like big family. I worked there at the hospital as PSW .I remember a nice ice ring, that we had fun on, hicking beautiful mountains often with our friend Gigi , party every weekend, working hard at the restaurant runed by Derek , Ida and her husband. Also got pregnant with my first son at Cassiar Jade city.

Worked 1 winter in Cassiar 1972--worked at the upper station on the tramline with Frank Buncic--coldest place I ever worked--got down to 50 below one night shift--at least we were protected from the wind--real friendly town--I remember the higher ups shaking our hands as we trooped into the huge cafeteria for a christmas feast--beautiful place

I worked at Cassiar back in 65. Worked in the mill bagging asbestos and then went on to driving forklift loading the trucks. Used to spend any time off I had in Watson Lake. Got to know Bob Kirk who along with a couple of friends found the Asbestos claim. Good friend of mine was Johnnie French who owned the Garage and tow truck service near the Watson Lake Hotel. Driving up to Dawson City this June, sure will bring back lots of memories.

i hauled dynamite into cassiar from 1978-1982 for C I L and waites transport out of calgary great bunch of guys at the mine and the camp kitchen , allways had a standing order for magazines and new news paper

My dad[Truck Driver] met my mom,who was a Carlick in Cassiar and they moved to Edmonton and had me and my 3 sibling,s,Their name,s were Jeannie[Florence]Carlick and Lee Laverdiere God Rest Their Soul,s,,,Thanx [Cuz] Gord for telling this story,,,Doug Laverdiere....Godbless.

Thanks for posting this. I worked as a security guard In 1986, 1987. Tony Coran brought baked Xmas goodies to us Security guards at our bunkhouse Christmas morning 1986. Such decent, wonderful people. I really liked the town. Too bad the Harcourt government was so indifferent to the fact that this was a town worth saving. The total government write off on their loans to Cassiar amounted to something like 40 million a few years ago. The government squanders money by the billions nowadays ( BC Place roof 630 million, BC Rail sold off for nothing, etc. , etc. endlessly) I can feel the pain of all who lost jobs, and a viable community.

Great song and a heartbreaking story. I took the hydro lines down for a company that bought it all. I had no clue what had happened, so sad. It was terrible like being in the Twilight Zone, swings creaking in empty yards, no people. God Bless Them All

Thanks for posting the video. I was born in Cassiar and grew up living next door to John Slana on Carmacks Street. I remember he had this golden red retriever named "Casey". Lots of great memories living up there.

@seasidemarkedwards5434

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Jason. Did you spend winters up there?

@chadclark5215

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he did

I worked in Cassiar as an accountant for 5 years, lived in one of the machined log houses, 4 children, 2 born in Cassiar & we remember those as very memorable & wonderful part of our lives. Thank U

I found out about Cassiar from a group of guys from BC that did a road trip that visited. I grew up in a small town and it breaks my heart to think that it would just be sold off and rolled up. Thanks for sharing and not forgetting. There are lessons to be learned from the past. Hopefully more people will learn of Cassiar and remember the people and life that was there for a while.

This should be shown to way more people in BC. No party in Victoria really understands or represents northern BC beyond a simplification of its value in dollars and cents.

Great doc Gord. Cheers. Though it is a sad story.

Wow! This is great! Thank you for posting this!

Thank you so much Gord 🩷💜

Gord is doing some movies .. he is a really a nice guy

Gonna have to dig it out and post it for everybody

The guy talking is Gordon Loverin zxxxvit was a gray show