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Originally Published On:

January 1, 2016

Originally Published By:

Haliburton Echo

Visionary: A Tribute to Sir Sanford Fleming

Written By:

Youkie Stagg

Sir Sandford Fleming was born in 1827 in Scotland but later moved to Peterborough in 1845 with his older brother. Fleming made several major contributions to the Peterborough community as well as the rest of the world. His most notable achievement was the establishment of Universal Standard Time which he recommended to the Royal Canadian Institute in 1879 and was adopted universally in 1884. His other achievements include: his design of a prototype of in-line skates, the Foundation of the Royal Canadian Institute in Toronto, the Threepenny Beaver – Canada’s first adhesive postage stamp, a proposal for a railway line spanning “British North America,” a submarine cable that would connect all the nations of the British Empire by telegraph, appointed as Chief Engineer of the Northern Railway, and knighthood by Queen Victoria in 1897. This sculpture includes the elements of a surveyor’s transit, compass, a clock representing time, significant dates in Fleming’s life, and the globe.


The Sculpture Forest offers free guided tours each Tuesday from 10-11:30 am and a shorter “Curator Selection” tour on Wednesday from 12:10 – 12:50. Meet at the kiosk in the Fleming College parking lot.

Land Acknowledgment

We would like to acknowledge that we are located on ancestral lands, the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabe covered by the Williams Treaties. This area, known to the Anishinaabe as “Gidaaki”, has been inhabited for thousands of years – as territories for hunting, fishing, gathering and growing food.


For thousands of years Indigenous people have been the stewards of this place. The intent and spirit of the treaties that form the legal basis of Canada bind us to share the land “for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow”.

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Location:

297 College Drive
Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0
Tel:

(705) 457-3555

Email:

info@haliburtonsculptureforest.ca

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Images © 2021 Kristy L. Bourgeois | Youkie Stagg | Angus Sullivan | Noelle Dupret Smith | Teodora Vukosavljevic | Nadia Pagliaro

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