| Feature Type: | Post Office - A Canada Post designation; the post office name may or may not be the same as the name of the place where it is located. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Caspaco |
| Relative Location: | On CNR, N side of Inverness Passage, just NW of mouth of Skeena River, Range 5 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°10'59"N, 130°11'06"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103J/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Cassiar (Railway Point) adopted 30 January 1981 on 103I-J as identified in CNR timetables, not "Cassiar Cannery (Railway Point)" as identified in CNR's 1962 timetable, nor "Caspaco (Station)" as identified in earlier CNR timetables. Name rescinded 19 December 1984. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Caspaco Post Office was opened 1 April 1916; Caspaco Station or Caspaco Cannery Station identified interchangeably in CNR timetables through 1960. Cassiar Cannery Station identified in CNR timetable October 1962; station identified as Cassiar in CRN timetables 1965 et seq; identified as Cassiar (conditional stop) in CNR timetable 1981; not identified in CRN timetables 1984 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Cassiar Packing Company was incorporated 20 January 1902 and established a cannery here in 1903. The post office opened here in 1916, was called Capasco, a hybrid of the name CASsiar PAcking COmpany. Company amalgamated to form Prince Rupert Packers Ltd, 10 December 1962; company dissolved 14 Feburary 1963. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |