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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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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University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (redirect from Sandford fleming building)
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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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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John Polanyi Collegiate Institute (redirect from Sir Sandford Fleming Academy)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pictou Landing was completed by June 1867, under the supervision of Sir Sandford Fleming. The construction of the Nova Scotia Railway by the colonial government...
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Bob McDonald (science journalist) (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion, from NSERC, the 2002 Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute, and the 2005 McNeil 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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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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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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Ursula Franklin (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
Ursula Martius Franklin CC OOnt FRSC (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator...
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Jay Ingram (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
Jay Ingram CM (born March 20, 1945) is a Canadian author, broadcaster and science communicator. He was host of the television show Daily Planet (originally...
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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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John Tuzo Wilson (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to...
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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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Helen Sawyer Hogg (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1984 Sandford Fleming Award from the Royal Canadian Institute in 1985 Rittenhouse Astronomical...
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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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Fred Bruemmer (category Sandford Fleming Award recipients)
Photography Association Lifetime Award, 2003; Royal Canadian Institute Sanford Fleming medal, 1989; Honorary Doctoral Degree, Dr.h.c. University of New Brunswick...
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Vancouver School Board (redirect from Sir Sandford Fleming Elementary School)
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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more than one United States Navy ship Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, 2014 TV mini-series Sir Sandford Fleming College, a College of Applied Arts and...
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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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