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Sandford Fleming
Sir Sandford Fleming
, (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish-born
Canadian
engineer
and
inventor
. He proposed worldwide
standard time
zones, 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
Royal Canadian Institute
, a science organization in
Toronto
.
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