SCHOOL CHILDREN'S PROJECT

SURVEY OF THE POPULATION OF CASSTAR, JUNE 1971.

This survey was carried out by
the students of Grades 5 and 6 at
the Casstar School as part of their
Social Studies program. The students
planned the entire survey nrogram,
including the questionnaire, and
then carried out the interviews among
the married residents of Cassiar.

The survew does not anplv to single
residents at all; we were onlv inter-
ested in families.

After the survev was carried
out, the students drew conclusions
from the information cathered, drew
up graphs and maps and wrote short
summaries of the results. These
7ranhs and summaries we thouecht
would be of some interest to the res-
idents of Casstar. especially those
who were interviewed.

Grade 5 and 6

QUESTION 1 - PREVIOUS RESIDENCE

After interviewing 88 families
the Grade 5 and 6 students found
out that ont of those 88 families
most people who reside in Cassiar
came from the two major cities in
B.C. (Vancouver and Victoria). Also
our neighbouring province (Alberta)
had peonle who moved to Cassiar
and now many people from Alberta
live in Casstar.

Only a small nercentace of
Cassiar is made up of neovle who
have gone to the trouble of moving
to Casstar from the far easterm
points of Canada, such as the Mar-
itimes. Five families come from
the Yukon and only two from the
Northwest Territories. Six famil-
ies lived overseas before coming to
Cassiar to reside.

Julie Hubbell.

(It must be remembered that the
information gathered in this sur-
vey is not whollv representative
of the married vopulation of
Cassiar, as only 88 families were
contacted. However, it is never-
theless noteworthy that the great
majority of those contacted lived
previously within a 1,000 mile
radius of Cassiar).

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QUESTION 2 - TRANSPORT TO CASSIAR.

It is surprisine to find out
that most peonle come bv road to get
to Cassiar. There is still a fairly
large group who come by air. We
asked neovle to tell what means of
transport they used to travel the
greatest distance to Cassiar, know-
ing that everyone has to drive the
final 109 miles.

We could hardly include rail-
road, boat and hitch-hike because
very few citizens travelled by these
means. Dogteam is mentioned because
one family travelled to Cassiar
from Telegranh Creek in winter many
years ago wien the road was probably
onlv a traii.

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