HYBLA

NAME: HYBLA COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall

COMMENTS: REMAINS: Hybia’s main street now consists of three original buildings, a store, now a house, a dwelling and the abandoned Hybla Gospel Tabernacle.

Before the railroad arrived in 1907, Hybla was a farming community. The arrival of steam engines brought the village into existence with a small station by the tracks. On the main street were two stores, boarding houses and churches. A blacksmith shop and a sawmill made up Hybia’s other industries. From the feldspar mine high in the hills beyond Hybia wagons brought the ore down a winding road piling their load beside the small station. When the railroads switched from coal to diesel, the station and boarding house were no longer needed and Hybla became another ghost town.

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