Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies



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Sandford Fleming
Sandford Fleming was a whirlwind inventor whose ideas came to 
benefit not only his home country but the world. Canadians can thank 
him for his “crazy” vision of building a railway clear across the vast 
wilds of Canada.
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How many different dreams can one person follow? For Sandford Fleming, it seems there 
was no limit.
When he was eighteen years old, having just arrived in Canada from Scotland, Fleming 
was a budding inventor who wanted other active minds around him. So he established the 
Royal Canadian Institute - a group dedicated to science, invention, and understanding. It 
still exists today.
Apparently, working as a surveyor and running his new Institute wasn’t enough to fully 
occupy his mind. On the side, Fleming took the time to design Canada’s first postage 
stamp in 1851.
Meanwhile, his tireless energy and sharp mind got him a job as chief engineer of a 
railway. That’s where Fleming developed his next vision - a railway clear across Canada. 
It took a dozen years for Fleming and others to convince the new Canadian government. 
Once the government had finally approved the idea, it gave Fleming the job of doing the 
surveying for the mammoth railway. Fleming had to find the best route from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific, over hundreds of kilometers of empty prairie and through mountain passes 
where no one had ever climbed.


He finished the survey job by 1876, and the railway was finished in 1885. Fleming was 
on hand when they drove the last spike to join the rail lines - and Canada - together.
You might think that institutes, railways, postage stamps, and submarine telegraph cables 
(he proposed the idea to connect the British Empire through communications) would be 
enough for one mind. But Sandford Fleming had yet another world-changing idea.
After missing a train in Ireland, Fleming became fed up with the way people kept time. 
At that time, time was strictly a local affair; every town had its own clock. Twelve noon 
in one place might be 12:15 in another just up the road. Fleming came up with the idea of 
creating standard time zones - twenty-four of them around the world. In each zone, the 
time would be exactly the same. It seems like common sense today, but Fleming had to 
fight for years to get this idea accepted, and the twenty-four time-zone idea wasn’t agreed 
upon until years after his death.
But Fleming’s many achievements were recognized while he was still alive; he was 
knighted by Queen Victoria. Today, Sir Stanford Fleming is recognized as the father of 
standard time and of our national railway - a man who changed our nation and the world.
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