Sandford Fleming
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Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian,
Portrait of Sir Sandford Fleming by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Sir Sandford Fleming House (1866–1871), Brunswick Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Fleming with his grandchildren in 1893
Sandford Fleming (in tallest hat) at the ceremony of the "last spike" being driven on the Canadian Pacific Railway
The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada. Before Canadian Confederation, the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince E
Sandford Fleming
…Although initially intended as a professional institute for surveyors and engineers it became a more general scientific society. In 1851 he designed the Threepenny Beaver, the first Canadian postage stamp, for the Province of Canada. Throughout this time he was fully employed as a surveyor, mostly for the Grand Trunk…
The "Threepenny beaver" stamp of 1851
An 1865 stamp of British Columbia
A 20¢ Newfoundland stamp of 1928
An 1868 6¢ "Large Queen" stamp