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    Sir Sandford Fleming FRSC KCMG (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated...
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  • Fleming College, also known as Sir Sandford Fleming College, is an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada...
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    Sir Sandford Fleming Park is a 95-acre (38 ha) Canadian urban park located in the community of Jollimore in Halifax Regional Municipality. It is also known...
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    death. Scottish-born Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming proposed a worldwide system of time zones in 1876 - see Sandford Fleming § Inventor of worldwide standard...
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    twice (156 strokes), or even 1 to 6 repeated four times (84 strokes). Sandford Fleming, the engineer-in-chief of the Canadian Intercolonial Railway, was an...
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    John Polanyi Collegiate Institute (JPCI), formerly Sir Sandford Fleming Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is housed...
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    zones are based on proposals by Scottish Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming, who pioneered the use of the 24-hour clock, the world's time zone...
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    on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2021. Creet, Mario (1990). "Sandford Fleming and Universal Time". Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History...
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  • time standard, so the time offsets are commonly understood as UTC. Sandford Fleming devised a system assigning the letters A–Y excluding J to 1-hour time...
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  • The Sandford Fleming Medal was instituted in 1982 by the Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIScience). It consists of the Sandford Fleming Medal...
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    treatment of time worldwide was a memoir entitled "Terrestrial Time" by Sandford Fleming, at the time the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, presented...
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  • Fernand Seguin (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
    Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 1988, he was awarded the Sandford Fleming medal by the Royal Canadian Institute. "Honorary Degree Citation -...
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  • Sandford may refer to: Baron Sandford Baron Mount Sandford Sandford (surname) Sandford Fleming (1827-1915), Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor of...
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    David Suzuki (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
    David Takayoshi Suzuki CC OBC FRSC (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in...
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    University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering The Sandford Fleming Building is the traditionally main building of the faculty. Former...
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    12th highest peak in the province. The mountain was named after Sir Sandford Fleming, a railway engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The mountain...
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    1872 he revised his proposal to base it on the Greenwich meridian. Sandford Fleming, a Scottish-born Canadian engineer, proposed worldwide Standard Time...
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    several significant parks, including Sir Sandford Fleming Park, gifted to the people of Halifax by Sir Sandford Fleming. It houses the Dingle Tower, dedicated...
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    the man leading them to their settlement in Peterborough. In 1845, Sandford Fleming, inventor of Standard Time and designer of Canada's first postage stamp...
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  • or French. Canada was an early adopter of the 24-hour clock, which Sandford Fleming promoted as key to accurate communication alongside time zones and...
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    Western Canada as a member of the Canadian Pacific Survey under Sir Sandford Fleming and Frank Moberly. Horetzky was born to Felix Horetzky and Sophia Roberton...
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    Chris Hadfield (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
    Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer. The first Canadian...
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    John Tuzo Wilson (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
    John Tuzo Wilson CC OBE FRS FRSE FRSC (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for...
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  • 8, 2023. It received positive reviews from critics. Misanthrope Amanda Sandford arranges an impromptu weekend getaway at a vacation rental to spend quality...
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    syaqʷəm (formerly named Sir Matthew Begbie) Sir Richard McBride Sir Sandford Fleming Elementary School Sir Wilfred Grenfell Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir William...
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  • of Nations as the best of 130 calendar proposals put forward. Sir Sandford Fleming, the inventor and driving force behind worldwide adoption of standard...
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    where the standard time concepts of Canadian railroad engineer Sir Sandford Fleming were adopted. The Hemispheres agreed do not correspond with exact continents...
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    the Lindsay Frost campus of Sir Sandford Fleming College in Ontario. In 2012, the two separate sports programs of Fleming College were combined and the...
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    enterprise under the supervision of the Department of Public Works led by Sandford Fleming. Surveying was carried out during the first years of a number of alternative...
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  • was formed in Toronto as the Canadian Institute on June 20, 1849, by Sandford Fleming, Kivas Tully, and Hamilton Hartley Killaly. It was conceived of originally...
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