PIONEER OF THE C.P.R.
♦ — The death occurred at the age of 88 of Sir Sandford Fleming, remembered as the man who surveyed the route by which the Canadian Pacific Railway cut across the Rockies and as the most zealous advocate of the great Pacific cable. He was a native of Kirkcaldy, and, after the fashion of his race, went forth to seek a fortune in the New World. The voyage was made in a sailing vessel, and lasted forty days. When he landed at Quebec he had two or three pieces of gold and a silver half-crown in his pocket. The half-crown he preserved to the end of his life. TTra advance was extraordinarily rapid. He became an engineer, and within twelve years was appointed chief engineer of the Northern. Railway, one of the pioneer lines then running northward from Toronto through unsettled ' regions, and since 'absorbed into the Grand Trunk system.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 14
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