Milton Parent’s Cassiar: The Town that Found Its Home in the Mountains documents the corporate, social, and physical history of the planned chrysotile asbestos mining town of Cassiar in the northern Cassiar Mountains. Parent traces how industrial mining infrastructure was established in the 1950s on McDame Mountain, giving rise to an isolated company settlement equipped with modern schools, recreation complexes, and hospital facilities. The work details the transportation logistics along the Stewart-Cassiar Highway, examining connections to neighboring northern communities such as Jade City, Good Hope Lake, and the historic placer grounds of McDame Creek. Parent records the everyday life of the multi-ethnic workforce and chronicles the town's abrupt closure, liquidation, and physical dismantling in the early 1990s.

Asbestos mines and mining British Columbia Cassiar History, British Columbia Cassiar, Cassiar (B.C.) History, Company towns British Columbia Cassiar History, Ghost towns British Columbia, Good Hope Lake (B.C.), History, Jade City (B.C.), McDame (B.C.), Municipal history British Columbia, Stikine Region (B.C.) History

Published by the Arrow Lakes Historical Society in cooperation with the Cassiar Historical Society. Includes index.

Published by the Arrow Lakes Historical Society in cooperation with the Cassiar Historical Society. Includes index.