This page was last edited on 9 October 2020, at 04:42. After the death of his wife Jeanie in 1888, Fleming's niece Miss Elsie Smith, daughter of Alexander and Lily Smith, of Kingussie, Scotland, presided over his household at "Winterholme" 213 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario. [8] Nevertheless, in 1884 he became a director of the Canadian Pacific Railway and was present as the last spike was driven. He qualified as a surveyor in Canada in 1849.[4]. In 1849 he created the Royal Canadian Institute with several friends, which was formally incorporated on November 4, 1851. B. Rogers near the summit of Rogers Pass (British Columbia) and co-founded the first "Alpine Club of Canada". In his later years he retired to his house in Halifax, later deeding the house and the 95 acres (38 hectares) to the city, now known as Sir Sandford Fleming Park (Dingle Park). Seine Initiative führte 1884 zur Washingtoner Meridiankonferenz, auf der der Meridian durch Greenwich unter anderem als Bezugs-Meridian für die Weltzeit empfohlen wurde. [28], Fleming has been honoured on two Canadian postage stamps: one from 1977 features his image and a railroad bridge of Fleming's design;[37] another in 2002 reflects his promotion of the Pacific Cable. In 1851 he designed the Threepenny Beaver, the first Canadian postage stamp, for the Province of Canada (today's southern portions of Ontario and Quebec). [1] He designed Canada's first postage stamp, left a huge body of surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto. A year after this incident, in January 1855, Sandford married Ann Jane (Jean) Hall. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed as a surveyor and in 1845,[3] at the age of 18, he emigrated with his older brother David to colonial Canada. Er blieb seiner Utopie treu, „dass ein aufgeklärtes Weltbürgertum letzten Endes nicht mehr brauchen würde als einen einheitlichen universellen Tag“ mit Weltzeit.[1]. In seiner Zeit als Chef-Ingenieur bei der Canadian Pacific Railway wirkte er vorwiegend als Landvermesser für den Ausbau der Strecken über Winnipeg hinaus nach Westen. 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[1] He designed Canada's first postage stamp, left a huge body of surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto. In 1910, this business was captured in a hostile take-over by stock manipulators acting under the name Canada Cement Company, which action was said by some to lead to an emotional depression that would contribute to Fleming's death a short time later. B. Rogers near the summit of Rogers Pass (British Columbia) and co-founded the first "Alpine Club of Canada". [9] By 1880, with 600 miles completed, a change of government brought a desire for a private company to own the whole project and Fleming was dismissed by Sir Charles Tupper, with a $30,000 payoff. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. Juni 2020 um 09:20 Uhr bearbeitet. [19] In 1888, he became the first president of the Rideau Curling Club,[20][21] after leaving the Ottawa Curling Club in protest of its temperance policy. As soon as he arrived in Peterborough, Ontario in 1845, Fleming became friendly with the family of his future wife, the Halls, and was attracted to Ann Jane (Jeanie) Hall. After missing a train while traveling in Ireland in 1876 because a printed schedule listed p.m. instead of a.m., he proposed a single 24-hour clock for the entire world, with the 24 hour divisions (labelled A-Y, excluding J) arbitrarily linked to the Greenwich meridian, which was designated G.[12] At a meeting of the Canadian Institute in Toronto on February 8, 1879, he linked it to the anti-meridian of Greenwich (now 180°).

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