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Memorandum on the Canadian Pacific Railway

Fleming, Sandford (Sir): 1827-1915. Born and educated as surveyor and engineer in Scotland; became engineer for Northern Railway, 1845; chief engineer of Intercolonial Railway during its construction; engineer-in-chief of surveys for CPR, 1871-1880; proponent of 24-hour-per-day system of time reckoning and intra-imperial system of cable communication; created C.M.G. (1877), K.C.M.G. (1897); charter member of Royal Society of Canada, 1882; chancellor of Queen's University, 1880-1915; director of HBC and CPR for some years (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Appendices: A. "Observations and practical suggestions on the subject of a railway through British North America, submitted to the government of the province of Canada, in the year 1863" by Fleming; B. "Canadian Pacific Railway, memorandum Feby. 1873" by Fleming.

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