Sandford Fleming

Sir Sandford Fleming
Portrait of Sir Sandford Fleming by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Born	(1827-01-07)January 7, 1827 Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Died	July 22, 1915(1915-07-22) (aged 88) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Occupation(s)	engineer and inventor
Military Service
Allegiance	Canada
Service / branch	Canadian Militia
Years of service	1862–1865
Rank	Captain
Unit	10th Volunteer Battalion of Rifles
Known for	Inventing, most notably standard time

Sir Sandford Fleming FRSC KCMG (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian 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, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time.^[1] He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute (a science organization in Toronto).