The first building in Chapleau was a railway car which was operational between November 1885 when passenger service first commenced on the CPR until the first CPR station opened in Chapeau in 1886. From left to right:
Charles Murphy, dispatcher
H.L. Nicholson, passenger conductor
James Rodger, chief dispatcher. Here is a portrait photo of Mr. Rodger
Edmund J. Duchesnay, resident construction engineer
Thos. J. Kennedy, roadmaster
Chris Kyle, locomotive foreman
Dr. R.H. Arthur, company physician and surgeon
Walter Hepburn, foreman carpenter
James M. Austin, town merchant and postmaster
M. Hicks, C.P.R. fitter