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	Fleming, Sir Sandford
		Fleming was an ardent advocate of an all-British railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and in 1863 presented to the Imperial authorities in London, England, a petition from the settlers at Red River, urging construction of a railway that would link that community with the BNA colonies further east (see RED RIVER COLONY).
		Fleming retired from the CPR when the Canadian government turned the project over to a private syndicate in 1880, but he continued to do consultative railway work.
		Fleming advocated the adoption of a standard or mean time and hourly variations from that according to established time zones.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002857 (612 words)

	Sandford Fleming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sandford Fleming was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, and in 1845, at the age of 17, he emigrated with his older brother David to Ontario (then the colony of Upper Canada).
		Fleming was present when Donald Smith drove in the "last spike" in Craigellachie, British Columbia in 1885, now as a board member of the Canadian Pacific company.
		Fleming Hall was built in his honour at Queen's in 1901, and rebuilt after a fire in 1932.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sandford_Fleming (695 words)

	Sir Sanford Fleming (1827-1915)
		Sir Sandford lived in Halifax in the 1880's when he was engineer- in-chief for construction of the Intercolonial Railway between the Maritimes and Quebec.
		Sir Sandford Fleming, C.M.G., served as Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
		Sir Sandford Fleming College, with campuses in many Ontario locations, was named in his honour.
	webexhibits.org /daylightsaving/ref/Sandford.html (664 words)

	Fleming, Sir Sandford
		Fleming was an ardent advocate of an all-British railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and in 1863 presented to the Imperial authorities in London, England, a petition from the settlers at Red River, urging construction of a railway that would link that community with the BNA colonies further east (see RED RIVER COLONY).
		Fleming retired from the CPR when the Canadian government turned the project over to a private syndicate in 1880, but he continued to do consultative railway work.
		Fleming advocated the adoption of a standard or mean time and hourly variations from that according to established time zones.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002857 (542 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		In 1863 Fleming, as a result of his intense lobbying, was the unanimous choice of the colonial governments as well as of the Colonial Office for the post of chief surveyor.
		Fleming subsequently organized the immense tasks of doing detailed surveys of the several proposed routes and of early construction; he himself took part in surveys when he could.
		Fleming’s inaugural address in 1880 made a powerful case for putting science at the centre of university education.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41492&query= (2704 words)

	Fleming Hall
		Fleming Hall is today a building comprised of two wings: the Jemmett Wing is in fact the original Fleming Hall, which was built between 1902-1904, and is now the southernmost of the two wings.
		Fleming was a driving force behind the laying of a telegraph cable from Canada to Australia, and was a voice for modernization in many areas of society.
		Sir John A. Macdonald himself, Canada's first Prime Minister, was considered for the post, but in the end Grant's influence won out and his good friend Sandford Fleming was elected in 1880.
	www.queensu.ca /secretariat/History/bldgs/flem.html (1046 words)

	Sir Sandford Fleming
		For Sandford Fleming the solution to this problem was a universal system of time, that would not only work for Halifax and Victoria, but for Paris and New Delhi as well.
		Fleming's idea was simple, straightforward, and practical, but it was new, and therefore difficult for people to accept.
		Fleming was even called a Communist for his "internationalist" notions, and reviled by some who believed that such interference with the nature of time was contrary to the will of God.
	www.histori.ca /minutes/minute.do?id=10182 (455 words)

	Sir Sandford Fleming \| Kirkcaldy on the Web \| Famous Langtonians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Born in Kirkcaldy in 1827, Sandford Fleming emigrated to Quebec at 17 years of age.
		But Sir Sandford would receive his place in history for what he did for the way we deal with time around the world.
		Sir Sandford proposed the idea of "time zones" - bands stretching from the north to south pole - which would leave a limited number of times to deal with - and an easily predictable system.
	kirkcaldy.myquestion.net /sandford-fleming.htm (274 words)

	rbc.com - RBC Financial Group - Royal Bank Letter
		Sir Sandford Fleming is not totally unsung, but considering what Canadians owe him 63 years after his death, it is odd that we so rarely celebrate his fantastic achievements.
		But Fleming was an engineer, and as he said himself, "engineers must plod on in a distinct sphere of their own, dealing less with words than with deeds, less with men than with matter".
		Sandford Fleming is the reason why anyone today can open an atlas, look at a clock, and calculate the time on the far side of the earth.
	www.rbc.com /community/letter/august1978.html (2739 words)

	Sir Sandford Fleming - 2001 North America Railway Hall of Fame Inductee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sanford Fleming was born in Kirkaldy, Scotland on July 7, 1827.
		Sandford Fleming also designed the first Canadian stamp, known as the three penny beaver.
		Fleming retired in 1880 and was knighted in 1897.
	www.narhf.org /nar01/NAR01awards_fleming.html (205 words)

	Sir Sandford Fleming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fleming directed much of the surveying of the Canadian West, both the Prairies and the Rocky Mountains.
		Fleming resigned from the project once it was turned over by the Canadian government to a private company in 1880 (the railway across Canada was completed on 7 November 1885).
		In the case of the first, Fleming was the first to advocate a standard, or mean, time, so that, anywhere in the world, time could be calculated as a variation of that mean time.
	www.canadianstudies.ca /NewJapan/fleming.html (306 words)

	The Sanford Fleming 3 Pence Essay
		Sir Sandford Fleming was born Jan. 7, 1827 in Kilkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.
		Edward Fleming and myself is attached; also a 1750 (noted as 1780) woodcut of a Beaver Family at Work in Canada, the property of Sir Sandford Fleming and which inspired the stamp design".
		Fleming shows a line of coniferous trees at the right and scrub brush at the left rather than using the "palm-like" trees depicted in the 1780 print.
	www.stampauctionnetwork.com /articles/fleming.htm (6182 words)

	Kirkcaldy Civic Society - Sir Sandford Fleming
		Sandford Fleming was born in a house in Glassworks Street, just off the High Street at the west end, on the 7th January 1827.
		Sandford studied engineering and surveying and was apprenticed to John Sang Engineers and Surveyors, Kirkcaldy.
		A cousin of the family suggested that Sandford and his brother David should consider emigrating to Canada as times were hard in Kirkcaldy at that time for family businesses and a better life might be found abroad.
	www.kirkcaldycivicsociety.co.uk /kdy/famousfolk/sirsfleming.htm (348 words)

	Sir Sandford Fleming, KCMG (The Canadian Railway Hall of Fame) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A pioneer Canadian civil engineer and surveyor, Sandford Fleming is a leading historical figure in the development of the Canadian railway industry.
		Fleming’s first railway posting was working on the survey of the Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron Railway.
		In 1871, Fleming was appointed as the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway and was charged with the survey of the line in western Canada through the Rocky Mountains.
	railfame.ca /2002/honour/Fleming-Sandford (288 words)

	The Sanford Fleming 3 Pence Essay
		Sir Sandford Fleming was born Jan. 7, 1827 in Kilkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.
		Edward Fleming and myself is attached; also a 1750 (noted as 1780) woodcut of a Beaver Family at Work in Canada, the property of Sir Sandford Fleming and which inspired the stamp design".
		Fleming shows a line of coniferous trees at the right and scrub brush at the left rather than using the "palm-like" trees depicted in the 1780 print.
	stampauctionnetwork.com /articles/fleming.htm (6182 words)

	NewsRegister.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fleming seemed to be in the right place at the right time with international trade and transportation being revolutionized through steam power.
		The author weaves a somewhat tortured story of Fleming's efforts using a vocabulary that would make Scrabble players wince, and his use of the first person seems out of place except in the forward and the afterword.
		Also, there are great gaps where Fleming never emerges - but we do learn the year Frank Sinatra was born and receive extensive reviews of the minor works of the major British and American writers of the period.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story_print.cfm?story_no=173733 (338 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time: Books: Clark Blaise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fleming, a Scot-Canadian surveyor and visionary, was to produce the first street maps of Toronto, engineer the trans-Canadian railway, and pioneer the trans-Pacific telegraph from London to Australia.
		His claim to the creation of a single standard time (precipitated by the railroads, which made a currency of time) was endorsed in 1884 at a conference that also set Greenwich as the prime meridian, to France's dismay.
		Fleming favoured an anti-prime, but there were last laughs for both Fleming and the French: Fleming's anti-prime became the International Date Line, while today France controls UTC (Universal Co-ordinated Time).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Time-Lord-Sandford-Creation-Standard/dp/029784136X (676 words)

	Sir Sandford Fleming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fleming's stamp was approved and in an office in the then Durham Building that stood on the SW corner of Yonge and Adelaide Streets, Sanford Fleming designed our first postage stamp, Beaver and all.
		Sanford Fleming, born in Scotland in 1827 arrived aboard the ship Brilliant when he was seventeen, lived for a time on the east side of York Street just south of King around the corner from his office in the former Romain Building now the site of the central courtyard of the TD center.
		Fleming along with his then partner Collingwood Schreiber (Engineers and Surveyors) were in charge of the initial survey for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
	www.brucebelltours.com /html/sir_sandford_fleming.html (1571 words)

	Sandford Fleming, Sir Biography / Biography of Sandford Fleming, Sir Biography
		Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915) was a Scottish-born Canadian railway engineer who became a widely recognized publicist for various scientific, imperial, and public causes.
		Sandford Fleming was born on Jan. 7, 1827, at Kirkcaldy, Scotland, where he studied engineering and surveying.
		In 1849 Fleming was prominent among a group of young scientists and engineers in founding the Canadian Institute at Toronto.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-sandford-fleming-sir (229 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fleming discovered that getting the world onto the same schedule required years of negotiating and browbeating, a nightmare that Blaise ably recounts.
		Clearly Fleming's view of time is at distinct variance with general relativity, (pace - how could he know?) but also takes as a fact what is at best an hypothesis: that time measured by different physical processes represents the same fundamental quantity.
		Fleming may be to some an emblem of Canadian nationalism, somehow under-appreciated and overshadowed by the neighbor to the south.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0756760569 (1608 words)

	News Release > Sir Sandford Fleming and Trent University receive funding for Aboriginal education and training > ...
		Sir Sandford Fleming College and Trent University will receive $302,400 from the province to develop programs and services for Aboriginal people, Jenny Carter, MPP for Peterborough, announced today.
		Sir Sandford Fleming and Trent University are among 22 colleges and universities and five Aboriginal educational institutions receiving $6 million in funding through the Aboriginal Education and Training Strategy this year.
		Sir Sandford Fleming College will receive $82,300 to support initiatives that include a new Aboriginal Peace Keepers Training Program to train law enforcers in First Nation communities.
	www.edu.gov.on.ca /eng/document/nr/95.03/trent1.html (615 words)

	Sir Sandford Fleming: Canada's Inventor of Standard Time
		Sandford Fleming became Sir Sandford Fleming in 1897, when he was knighted.
		Fleming was the Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway and he found the existing times chaotic for organizing trains, their arrival and departure times.
		Fleming felt the solution to his railway woes was the adoption of a universal method of time that would work in Canada and around the world.
	www.canadianaconnection.com /cca/fleming.htm (303 words)

	Fleming: Sir Sandford Fleming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 18-year-old Sandford and his older brother, David, arrived in Peterborough by horse-drawn cart on June 17 1845, where Sandford made his home with Dr. and Mrs.
		Fleming was always searching for broader horizons and greater challenges.
		Fleming was present when Donald A. Smith drove in the "last spike" in 1885.
	www.flemingc.on.ca /FLEMING/ssfleming.cfm (426 words)

	Sanford da Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fleming contributed in numerous ways to the development of Canada and it was he, more than any other person, who was responsible for the development and world adoption of the system of international standard time.
		Sir Sandford Fleming was Chancellor of Queen’s University for 35 years 2.
		Sir Andrew Macphail, a man of letters at McGill University, said of Sir Sandford Fleming: “He was the greatest man who ever concerned himself with engineering....
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/34-37.htm (1059 words)

	Daylight Saving Time - Credits & feedback
		In the photos with Sandford Fleming, the man holding the hammer is Donald Smith, later Lord Strathcona, who was one of the main financiers of the line.
		Sandford Fleming is the man standing to his left with the stove pipe hat and the white beard.
		Sir Sandford Fleming photograph adapted from "Driving the last spike of the C.P.R. (Craigallochie, B.C.) 1885." at the National Archives of Canada, C-011371, via the National Library of Canada web site.
	webexhibits.org /daylightsaving/i.html (1313 words)

	Amazon.com: Time Lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time: Books: Clark Blaise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fleming discovered that getting the world onto the same schedule required years of negotiating and browbeating, a nightmare that Blaise ably recounts.
		Fleming was born in Scotland, and immigrated to Canada to do surveying.
		Time Lord is a biography of Sir Sandford Fleming, and the story of his role in the establishment of world standard time in the latter part of the 19th century.
	www.amazon.com /Time-Lord-Sandford-Creation-Standard/dp/0375401768 (2075 words)

	News @ Cisco: Sir Sandford Fleming College Installs Converged Voice, Video and Data Network at New Student Residences
		Through its partnership with Fleming, Bell Canada will deploy converged Cisco networks in other new buildings as the college continues to grow; with the ultimate vision of one unified voice, video and data network linking all four campuses.
		"Bell has partnered with Sir Sandford Fleming College since 1997 to provide advanced technologies that benefit students and faculty, and we are excited to continue our partnership with this IP telephony project," said John Hertel, vice-president, Ontario Advantage Business Market, Bell Canada.
		"Sir Sandford Fleming is taking advantage of cutting-edge technology to better service its students, while reducing costs and simplifying network administration," said Nitin Kawale, director, enterprise operations, Cisco Systems Canada.
	newsroom.cisco.com /dlls/global/canada/news/2002/pr_03-14.html (752 words)

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