Sir Sandford Fleming KCMG
(1827-1915)
Knight Commander of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, engineer, and inventor
Died aged c. 88
Wikidata WikipediaSir Sandford Fleming FRSC KCMG (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometers of 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).
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Commemorated on 2 plaques
The Birthplace of Standard Time In a building which stood immediately west of this site, Sandford Fleming (1827-1915) read a paper before the Canadian Institute on February 8, 1879, outlining his concept of a worldwide, uniform system for reckoning time. This was prompted by Fleming's observation of the difficulties imposed upon east-west travellers, particularly over long distances as in North America, by arbitrary variations in local time. Circulated among the principal governments of the world, Fleming's proposal gave rise to the International Prime Meridian Conference at Washington in 1884, at which the basis of today's system of Standard Time was adopted. The Conference also endorsed Fleming's idea of a "Universal Day" or 24-hour clock.
in front of the parking garage of the building on the east side of Berti Street just north of Richmond Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada where they read a paper before the Canadian Institute
Canada’s first postage stamp issued April 23 1851 was designed on this site by Sir Sandford Fleming.
110 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, Canada where they was