Schreiber Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
township municipality in Ontario, Canada
About Schreiber
The town was named after Sir Collingwood Schreiber, a railway engineer, founding member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, and deputy minister of Railways and Canals 1892-1905. The town is near the main exposure of the Gunflint chert, which contains rare single-celled proterozoic fossils. The settlement was founded in 1883 as a construction camp for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Steamships loaded with supplies for building the railway would dock at what was then known as "Isbester's Landing", named for railway contractor James Isbester, who in partnership with Robert Gillespie Reid was responsible for building many of the railway bridges along the north shore of Lake Superior. Isbester's Landing grew from construction camp to railway division point. A station, roundhouse, ca
Top Attractions in Schreiber
Explore the best things to see and do in Schreiber:
- ★Schreiber Rail Array Museum
Where to Eat in Schreiber
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Breeze Bakery & Catering
- 🍴Filane's
- 🍴Hungry Moose
- 🍴Robins Donuts & Deli, KFC Express, and Pizza Hut Express
- 🍴The Golden Rail
Where to Stay in Schreiber
- 🏨Birch Grove Housekeeping Motel
- 🏨Nor-West Motel
- 🏨Sunset Motel
- 🏨The Cosiana Inn
- 🏨The Voy
- 🏨Villa Bianca Inn
Schreiber Travel Guide Sections
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