The former residents of the northern B.C. mining town of Cassiar are keeping its spirit alive with the help of a University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) history project that made extensive use of social media.
Shortly after closing its doors in 1992, the Cassiar Asbestos Mining Company donated nearly 2,000 banker's boxes to UNBC full of files and old photos documenting the history of the town and its people.
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