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WILLIAM KINGSFORD (1819-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 817 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:KINGSFORD (1819-1898)  , See also:British engineer and See also:Canadian historian, was See also:born in See also:London on the 23rd of See also:December 1819 . He first studied See also:architecture, but disliking the confinement of an See also:office enlisted in the 1st See also:Dragoon See also:Guards, obtaining his See also:discharge in See also:Canada in 1841 . After serving for a See also:time in the office of the See also:city surveyor of See also:Montreal he made a survey for the See also:Lachine See also:canal (1846-1848), and was employed in the See also:United States in the See also:building of the See also:Hudson See also:River railroad in 1849, and in See also:Panama on the railroad being constructed there in 1851 . In 1853 he was surveyor and, afterwards See also:district See also:superintendent for the See also:Grand See also:Trunk railroad, remaining in the employment of that See also:company until 1864 . The following See also:year he went to See also:England but returned to Canada in 1867 in the See also:hope of taking See also:part in the construction of the Intercolonial Railway . In this he was unsuccessful, but from 1872 to 1879 he held a See also:government See also:post in See also:charge of the harbours of the See also:Great Lakes and the St See also:Lawrence . He had previously written books on See also:engineering and topographical subjects, and in 188o he began to study the records of Canadian See also:history at See also:Ottawa . Among other books he published Canadian See also:Archaeology (1886) and See also:Early Bibliography of See also:Ontario (1892) . But the great See also:work of his See also:life was a History of Canadain 10 volumes (1887-1897), ending with the See also:union of Upper and See also:Lower Canada in 1841 . See also:Kingsford died on the 28th of See also:September 1898 .

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