Those honoured here are noted for their contributions to the development of Nova Scotia’s railway systems, or for their work on railroads elsewhere. Inductees are listed in alphabetical order.

JAY UNDERWOOD (Curator)


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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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Adams George Archibald
Loran Ellis Baker
Robert Laird Borden
C. H. Cahan
Thomas Cantley
Edward Barron Chandler
Vincent P. Coleman
Peter Crerar
Nathaniel Curry
George Davidson
Hiram Donkin
Cyrus Eaton
Sandford Fleming
James Richardson Forman
Charles Percy Fullerton
Frederick Newton Gisborne
George Munroe Grant
Timothy Hackworth
David Blythe Hanna
John Harvey
Edmund W. Henderson
Simon Hugh Holmes
Joseph Howe
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Henry G.C. Ketchum
James Laurie
John Gaspard LeMarchant
Avard Longley
James MacDonald
William Mackenzie
Donald Mann
Jonathan McCully
Archibald McLelan
John S. McLennan
Thomas Gotobed McMullen
Alexander Mitchell
James William Porter
David Pottinger
Nelson Admiral Rhodes
Alexander Robb
Thomas Robertson
William Robinson
Collingwood Schreiber
Clarence Silliker
Bessie Smith
Jabez Bunting Snowball
John F. Stairs
Emile Stehelin
Charles Tupper

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UPDATED: April 2007