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FLEMING, SIR SANDFORD (1827- )

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

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