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How Chapleau got its Name

The town was named in honour of Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, journalist, businessman, politician (born at St-Therese-de-Blainville, Lower Canada, November 7, 1840; died at Montreal June 13, 1898).

He was admitted to the bar in 1861 and taught criminal law at U Laval in Montreal from 1878 to 1885.

One of the owners of Le Colonisateur 1862-63 and La Presse in 1889, he was also a director of the Laurentides and the Pontiac and Pacific railway companies.

He was elected to the Quebec legislature in 1867, re-elected in 1871, and he was attorney general 1873-74 and provincial secretary 1876-78. He then led the Conservative Party to become Premier in 1879.

He left provincial politics in 1882, winning a federal by-election in Terrebonne. He was secretary of state until 1892, when he became minister of customs. He became lieutenant governor of Quebec in Nov 1892, retiring February 1, 1898.

Chapleau Ontario lies 100 miles north-east of Sault Ste. Marie. By road, the distance from Sault Ste. Marie is 190 miles. Here are some road maps.

The earliest Europeans came for the Hudson Bay Company who established a fur trading post on Big Missinabi Lake in 1777, about 50 miles north of Chapleau.

In 1885 the Canadian Pacific Railway was built through the Chapleau area. The C.P.R. chose this spot as a division point and that is how the town got started.

Chapleau's population has dropped from about 5,000 in the 1950s to the present of 2,350.

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Downtown Chapleau looking north ©

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The rail yard looking west ©

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The centre part of town looking south ©

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Looking east ©

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East end of town looking south ©

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Waterfront looking south ©