Sandford Fleming
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Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish engineer and entrepreneur.
He was born and raised in Scotland and migrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18.
He promoted worldwide time zones, including a prime meridian, and the use of the 24-hour clock as key elements in determining the correct time, which all contributed to the development of Coordinated Universal Time.
He invented Canada's first postage stamp, left a large body of surveying and map making on the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founder of the Canadian Institute, a science group in Toronto.
Early life
Fleming was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, in 1827, to Andrew and Elizabeth Fleming. He was apprenticed as a surveyor and then, in 1845, he and his older brother David immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 14. They traveled through many cities of the Canadian colonies: Quebec City, Montreal, and Kingston before settling in Peterborough with their cousins two years later in 1847. In 1849, he registered as a surveyor in Canada.
He founded the Royal Canadian Institute with several acquaintances in 1849, which was officially established on November 4, 1851. Although it was intended as a surveyors and engineers' institute, it later became a more general scientific society. He created the Threepenny Beaver, the first Canadian postage stamp for the Province of Canada in 1851 (today's southern portions of Ontario and Quebec). During this period, he was mainly for the Grand Trunk Railway, and mainly for the railways. His apprenticeship with them earned him the position of Chief Engineer of the Northern Railway of Canada in 1855, where he opposed the construction of iron bridges rather than wood for safety reasons.
Fleming was the captain of Canada's 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada) and was promoted to the rank of captain on January 1, 1862. In 1865, he was withdrawn from the militia.
Later life
When Tupper's railway privatization drive forced him out of a career with government, he resigned from surveying to become the Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He served in the position for 37 years, where his former Minister George Monro Grant served as principal from 1877 to Grant's death in 1902. Not content to leave well enough alone, he argued for the construction of the All Red Line, which was completed in 1902.
In 1882, he wrote a book on the HBC's land policy. He was a man of ideas.
He continued to work as an entrepreneur, founding the Nova Scotia Cotton Manufacturing Company in Halifax in 1882, becoming one of the company's founding shareholders in 1882. He was a member of the North British Society. He was also involved in the establishment of the Western Canada Cement and Coal Company, which in turn created the company town of Exshaw, Alberta. This company was captured by stock manipulators operating under the name Canada Cement Company in 1910, causing an emotional condition that would lead to Fleming's death a short time later.
He served as vice president of the Ottawa Horticultural Society in 1880. After leaving the Ottawa Curling Club in protest of the club's temperance policy, he became the first president of the Rideau Curling Club in 1888.
He began to campaign for electoral reform and the need for proportional representation in the early 1890s. He wrote two books on the subject "An Appeal to Parliament on the Rectification of Parliament" (1892) and "Essays on the Rectification of Parliament" (1893), which included an essay by Australian reformer Catherine Spence.
He became a vocal promoter of the installation of a telecommunications cable from Canada to Australia, which he believes will be a vital British Empire communications link. In 1902, the Pacific Cable was successfully installed. In 1900, he wrote the book "Canada and British Imperial Cables."
His exploits were well-known around the world, and Queen Victoria honoured him in 1897. He was a freemason who had joined St Andrew's Lodge No. 1 [Now No. 16] in York [now Toronto] and is now Toronto.
When researching the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway with George Monro Grant in 1883, he encountered Major A. B. Rogers at the summit of Rogers Pass (British Columbia) and co-founded the first "Alpine Club of Canada" in 1969. That early alpine club was short-lived, but in 1906 the modern Alpine Club of Canada was founded in Winnipeg, and Sir Sandford Fleming became the club's first Patron and Honorary President.
In his later years, he returned to his Halifax home and the 95 acres (38 hectares) to the city, later identified as Sir Sandford Fleming Park (Dingle Park). He had a house in Ottawa and was buried there, in the Beechwood Cemetery.
