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Saturday, August 10, 2019
Pioneers carved Chapleau out of wilderness as "ribbons of steel arrived in 1885
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If you had been suspended high above Chapleau in 1885, all you would have seen at first glance would have been a virgin forest, ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Canadian Pacific Railway kept pace with Chapleau in community's first 50 years
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By 1888 Chapleau had a public library housed in a passenger coach with over two thousand volumes of "fine literature", accordin...
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Exploratory land surveys to determine route of CPR in many ways as "historically significant as construction of railway itself"
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Surveyors at River Aux Sables 1876 National Archives Canada Ian Macdonald and Michael McMullen share their research into the one of the ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Tawagami selected as CPR divisional point but "lakes and swamps" saw it moved to Chapleau in 1885
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CPR station 1886 The Canadian Pacific Railway divisional point that became Chapleau was supposed to be at Tawagami, seven miles east...
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Louis Bignucolo retired as CPR engineer after 42 years of 'railroading' at Chapleau
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Louis Bignucolo who arrived in Canada from Italy worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway for 42 years before retiring in 1960. At a...
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