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SIR SANDFORD FLEMING (1827- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 495 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR SANDFORD FLEMING (1827- )  ,
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Canadian engineer and publicist, was born at Kirkcaldy, Scotland, on the 7th of
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January 1827, but emigrated to
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Canada in 1845 .
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Great powers of
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work and thoroughness in detail brought him to the front, and he was from 1867 to r88o chief engineer of the Dominion government . Under his control was constructed the Inter-colonial railway, and much of the Canadian Pacific . After his retirement in 188o he devoted himself to the study of Canadian and Imperial problems, such as the unification of time reckoning throughout the
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world, and the construction of a state-owned
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system of telegraphs throughout the
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British
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empire . After years of labour he saw the first
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link forged in the chain, in the opening in 1902 of the Pacific Cable between Canada and
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Australia . Though not a party man he strongly advocated Federation in 1864–1867, and in 1891 vehemently attacked the Liberal policy of unrestricted reciprocity with the
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United States . He took the deepest
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interest in
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education, and in 188o became chancellor of Queen's University, Kingston . He published The Intercolonial: a
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History (
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Montreal and
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London, 1876) ; England and Canada (London, 1884) ; and numerous brochures and
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magazine articles on scientific, social and
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political subjects .

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