Gruber, Manitoba

Gruber was an unincorporated place in what is now the Rural Municipality of Mossey River, Manitoba. Hersh Girtle was the postmaster at one time.^[1] The location was described as 37 miles (60 km) north of Dauphin and 2 miles (3 km) north of Winnipegosis, but another source gives the location as 1.5 miles (2.5 km) south of Winnipegosis.

Gruber was established by and named after its founder, Rabbi Eliezer Lazar Gruber. It was formally recognised by the Department of the Interior, Government of Canada, on October 19, 1904, in accordance with the hamlet provisions of the Dominion Lands Act. The Department of Interior extended settlement solely to the 19 persons that had made homestead and declared that settlement would not be extended beyond that.^[2]

Gruber is listed as a station served by Canadian Northern Railway in a 1907 edition of The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition.^[3]

References

1. Eli Gottesman, Max Bookman (1956). "A.M. Israels". Who's who in Canadian Jewry: Compiled and Prepared by the Canadian Jewish Literary Foundation for the Jewish Institute of Higher Research of the Central Rabbinical Seminary of Canada. Retrieved February 28, 2013. Maternal grandparents came to Winnipeg in 1882, where grandfather, the late Hirsch Girtle, was a Commissioner for Naturalization and Postmaster in Gruber, Manitoba, one of the founders of the Rosh Pina Synagogue and ...
2. Reflections from Little Muddy Water: a history of Winnipegosis. Winnipegosis History Book Committee. 1990. p. 15. Retrieved February 28, 2013. When the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company line was extended in 1897 from Sifton, it stopped at a small settlement called Gruber, about a mile and a half south of the present village of Winnipegosis. This place took the name ...
3. The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition. National Railway Publication Company. 1907. p. 1161. Retrieved February 28, 2013.

Coordinates: 51°43′16″N 99°57′40″W / 51.721°N 99.961°W