Cassiar Bar, 1898 Location; Living Conditions Caption: Cassiar Bar

Caption: Cassiar Bar

Photograph of a toddler holding on to a highchair

Photograph of men assembled at the shore of (probably) the Yukon River in a camp

Note the buildings on the hillside

Inscription recto: Survey Office

Cassiar Bar, 1898 Location; Living Conditions Caption: Cassiar BarPhotograph of Cassiar Bar. Caption: Cassiar Bar. Cassiar Bar is one of a group of gravel bars in the Yukon River, six miles above the Big Salmon River and opposite the mouth of Fyfe Creek. Gold was first discovered at Cassiar Bar in 1884 and produced the first considerable amount of gold taken out of the upper Yukon region (from 'Yukon Places & Names' by R. Coutts.)