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Name: Sandford Fleming, Sir
Birth Date: January 7, 1827
Death Date: July 22, 1915
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Place of Death: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nationality: Scottish, Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupations: engineer, spokesman

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Biography of Sandford Fleming, Sir
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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...


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Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a prolific Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor, known for introducing Universal Standard Time and Canada's postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much...


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The American Enterprise
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time.(Review)
09/01/2001: 860 words, approx. 3 pages
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time By Clark Blaise Pantheon Books, 272 pages, $24 When it is noon in Los Angeles, the time in New York City is 3 p.m., and it's eight in the evening in...
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Presbyterian Record
Sir Sandford Fleming.
02/01/2000: 278 words, approx. 1 pages
Sandford Fleming was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in 1827 and came to Canada when he was 18. He joined the engineering staff of the Northern Railway and, in 1855, became chief engineer. In 1872, he travelled across Canada to lay out the route...
 


 

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