Henry McDame
	
Henry McDame was a black prospector in the Cassiar District who was famous for mining $6,000 worth of gold in thirty days.((Francis E. Caldwell, //Cassiar's Elusive Gold.// Victoria: Trafford Publishing. 1999: 34.)) By 1870, prospectors had opened a trail from Telegraph Creek to Stikine and into Dease Lake. A permanent gold camp, Centreville, sprang up in the Cassiar Valley where 5,000 men prospected for gold on McDame and Dease creeks, both proven as the richest streams in the area.((Jane Gaffin, //Caching In.// Whitehorse: Word Pro, 1980: 56.)) Alfred Freeman discovered the largest nugget ever located in British Columbia on McDame Creek in 1877.((Francis E. Caldwell, //Cassiar's Elusive Gold.// Victoria: Trafford Publishing. 1999: 34.)) In 1946, Bob Kirk, a trapper at Lower Post had been aware of the asbestos on McDame Mountain, above the creek, for many years.((Jane Gaffin, //Caching In.// Whitehorse: Word Pro, 1980: 56.))