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Fleming Park
in Peterborough Ontario
Fleming Park has a
plaque commemorating Sir Sanford Fleming
SIR SANDFORD FLEMING 1827-1915
Inventor of standard time and pioneer in world communications,
Fleming was born in Kircaldy, Scotland and trained in engineering
and surveying before emigrating to Canada and settling in
Peterborough in 1845. He soon moved to Toronto where in 1849 he
assisted in the founding of the Canadian Institute and two years
later designed the first Canadian postage stamp. He was the
builder of the Intercolnial Railway and as chief engineer of the
Canadian Pacific Railway (1871-1887) conducted surveys of a
transcontinental route. His proposal, presented to the Canadian
Institute in 1879, outlining a world-wide uniform system for
reckoning time and his advocacy of a cable route linking Canada
and Australia earned Fleming universal recognition. He was
knighted in 1897.
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