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Research of Schreiber, p86

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JAMES ISBESTER 1. The following four Exhibits, numbered One, Two, Three and Four are old photographs which are identified as having been taken on "James Isbester's C.P.R. Contract." 2. As a railway construction contractor James Isbester undertook the construction of several miles of construction for the Canadian Pacific Railway being built along the north shore of Lake Superior. It was during the years 1883, 1884 and 1885, while this construction along the north shore of Lake Superior was in progress, that James Isbester, with his family, lived at Port Arthur. (See James Isbester Exhibit Number Two Volume 1). 3. James Isbester's Canadian Pacific Railway contract was for the construction of a number of miles of the new railway line being built in the vicinity of what was to become known as Schreiber, Ontario. At that time, during the railway construction period, Schreiber had been been known as Isbester's Landing, where James Isbester had had his construction camps. It is believed that Isbester's Landing had been located somewhere close to the eastern end of James Isbester's C.P.R, contract which, it is also believed, extended westerly from that point for several miles. August 27, 1990. James E. Isbester.

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