The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Schreiber, Collingwood
SCHREIBER, shrī'bĕr,  Collingwood,
Canadian railway engineer: b. Essex, England,
14 Dec. 1831. He settled in Canada in 1852
and engaged in engineering practice at Toronto.
He was assistant engineer of the Toronto and
Hamilton Railway in 1852-56; superintending
engineer of the Northern Railway in 1860-62;
division engineer for the Nova Scotia government
in 1863-67; and in 1867-73 he had charge
of the surveys of the Intercolonial Railway
and was chief engineer of the government
railways in operation. He was appointed chief
engineer of the Canadian Pacific in 1880;
became chief engineer and Deputy Minister of
the Department of Railways and Canals,
Ottawa; and in 1905 he was appointed consulting
engineer to the Canadian government and chief
engineer of the western division of the
National Trans-Continental Railway. He was
knighted in 1916.