Rural Routes Ontario

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Schreiber, Ontario
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Ontario Tourism Region : Northwest Ontario

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Pop. 1,968. In Thunder Bay Dist. on the N shore of L. Superior and Bwy 17, 94 km. SE of Nipigon.
The place was first called Isbester's Landing, after a Col. Isbester, who landed troops here in 1869, en route to subdue the Red River Rebellion.
The CPR tracks reached here by 1885, and a settlement began about 2 mi. (3 km.) inland, on the site of the railway construction camp.
The place was named Schreiber after Sir Collingwood Schreiber, then engineer-in-chief of the CPR and later deputy minister ofthe federal Department of Railways and Canals.
A town hall, built in 1885, provided a public library, auditorium, barber shop -- and the first bathtubs in Schreiber, which could be rented for 25 cents a night.

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on 06-Nov-12

Your record of a Col Isbester is in error. No Col Isbester had anything to do with the Riel Rebellion. James Isbester, after whom the place was origunslly known, was railway construction contractor who built a number of the trestles for the railway. A history of his work will be on the market within the next year.

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