Sir Collingwood Schreiber
Description
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- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A portrait of Sir Callingwood Schreiber. He was born at Bradwell Lodge near Colchester England. Collingwood Schreiber trained as a civil engineer. He came to Canada and became a field surveyor and administrator in the era of railway expansion. In 1873 he became the chief engineer of government railways. He succeeded Sir Sanford Fleming in 1880 as CPR chief engineer, and spent considerable time in Northwestern Ontario.
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- Local identifier
- SPL: 1985.9.262
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.81252 Longitude: -87.26458
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Schreiber Public LibraryEmail:libinfo@schreiber.ca
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P.O. Box 39
Schreiber, ON P0T 2S0
1-807-824-2477 (phone)
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