FROM FOLLY TO FORTUNE
The firing of James Richardson Forman
by Jay Underwood

James Richardson Forman was born in 1822 at Halifax, and returned to from Scotland in 1854 to oversee the construction of the Nova Scotia Railway, the first publicly-owned railway in the British Empire. But did he become a victim of Nova Scotia's venal politics? He had been appointed to his post at the request of Reformer Joseph Howe, but was dismissed from office in 1858 by James W. Johnston, who became Conservative premier of the province in 1857. Two years after he left for a brilliant career in Scotland, it was discovered that most of the reasons for his dismissal were the fault of his second-in-command, who was also Johnston's nephew!

ISBN: 1-897190-23-9 (paper)
ISBN: 1-897190-24-7 (Hard cover)
170pp

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