# Cassiar

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. A ghost town in the Cassiar Mountains, Cassiar Land District, Northern Interior, Interior, Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.
2. A former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada.
3. A historical region in northwest British Columbia, Canada, site of an 1870's gold rush; in full, Cassiar Country.
4. Ellipsis of the Cassiar Mountains: a mountain group in the Cassiar Land District, in northwest British Columbia, Canada, named after the district.
5. Ellipsis of the Cassiar Land District: a cadastral division in northwest British Columbia, Canada, named after the historic Cassiar Country region.
6. A river in the Cassiar Land District, in northwest British Columbia, Canada; in full, Cassiar River.

## Etymology
Corruption of Kaska. From Kaska. From the Kaska Dena, an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations group of the Dene, who live in the region of Northern British Columbia and Southern Yukon Territory.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cassiar