Schreiber is a municipal township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on the northernmost point of Lake Superior along Highway 17.

Passing close to the town is the Casques Isles Trail, a dream of Schreiber-born outdoorsman Tom McGrath.

Northwestern Ontario, including Schreiber, is part of the large rocky area defined as the Canadian Shield.

The town is surrounded by higher terrain on the west, north and east sides while the south is open and shows the descent to Lake Superior.

The village of Rossport, sitting on Lake Superior, 14 mi (23 km) to the west, has an elevation of 630 ft (190 m) above sea level.

The CPR moved the divisional office from White River to Schreiber in 1912, and thereafter remained as one of the town's biggest employers.

Several prisoner of war camps for Axis soldiers, sailors and air force personnel were also built nearby.

This forced the township to negotiate with the Department of Education and, in 1962, provincial approval was given for the construction of a new building which would now be the Schreiber High School.

The new and modern Schreiber High School building was constructed on the south side of town and officially opened on August 31, 1963.

In 2002, a decision was made that there would be one designated location to provide secondary education to the students of Schreiber, Terrace Bay and immediate area.

This status of being a home terminal for train crews ensures the township of a number of high-quality skilled jobs.

This constant movement of staff was a very common early practice within all railways, owing usually to the large territory combined with the limitations on travel and communications.

The rotating in-and-out of supervisors gave these people exposure to the CPR's various subdivisions, allowed them to experience the challenges that may be specific to those territories, and to meet and understand the needs of the local rail customers.

Having housing available in a small centre such as Schreiber made such a transfer easier for the railways' incoming staff and their families.

[22] The in-resident Schreiber Division [23] Superintendent was allocated a single detached house on the corner of Alberta and Erie Streets,[24] two blocks from his office in the CPR station.

The well-kept station grounds[25] were a local source of joy and pride and something especially enjoyed by the passengers[26] of the passing trains.

To complete the picture of an overall peaceful setting, the grassed grounds and flower beds on both sides of the CPR station were separated from the Brunswick Street roadway by wire fencing and a line of mountain ash trees.

The green grass was replaced with a packable material and the area became an employee parking lot which now required little maintenance.

At its peak, the town was home and headquarters for Canadian Pacific's Schreiber Division superintendent, his management staff and the territory's dispatching office.

[27] Schreiber, with a population of approximately 2,000 people, was the smallest location on the CPR's rail line to be the designated home of a Divisional Superintendent and his dispatching office.

The fact that the closest airport was in Thunder Bay, approximately 120 mi (190 km) away, and that the lake-effect weather could make driving a concern, made corporate stopovers more challenging.

[28] This organizational change served to resolve the issue of travel to a remote location for the railway, with Sudbury being more accessible for flights from Toronto and Montreal.

The re-alignment of the superintendent's territory resulted in the supplied housing units in Schreiber to be left standing vacant.