Many of the loggers who came to Nass Camp brought their families with them and the community grew quickly. The first school in Nass Camp was built in 1964. It was a "one room" school in a "trible wide" trailer with one teacher for grades 1-7. A few years later the population of Nass Camp had grown so much that they added a second "trible-wide" and hired a second teacher. At that time there were about forty students. The school would have been larger but almost half the employees were Nisga'a who lived in the nearby villages of Gitwinksihlkw and Aiyansh. Until 1977, the government sent Nisga'a children away from their families to secondary schools in the south and in Alberta.

The population of Nass Camp peaked in the early 1970's when there were about three hundred employees. By then Nass Camp had eighteen houses and more than forty trailers It had own skating rink, a ski lift and all the equipment needed for a bowling alley. The Nass Camp rink is still ther only arena in the Nass Valley. It is open for anyone who wants to use it.

Earl Ellis, manager of logging in the Nass Valley until 1974, remembers Nass Camp as a good place for families. He recalls families fishing together and winter picnics at the top of the ski lift. People brought skis and toboggons. They built fires and roasted hotdogs.

Because so many Nisga'a and non-Nisga'a loggers worked together good friendships between them were common and there was a lot of cooperation and support between Nass Camp and the Nisga'a villages.

A number of companies have owned Nass Camp over the years. Their names are found below:

• 1965 - Columbia Cellulose
• 1968 - Colcel
• 1973 - Canadian Cellulose
• 1981 - B.C. Timber
• 1984 - Westar
• 1986 - Repap