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(1822-1900)
The chief engineer of the Nova Scotia Railway from 1854-1858, Forman was born in Nova
Scotia, but worked on several successful railways in Scotland. Amid political scandal he
was dismissed from the Nova Scotia project in 1858 by the new premier James W. Johnston
and his vindictive lieutenant Charles Tupper.
His work was investigated by James Laurie, who noted many of the problems for which
Forman was blamed were caused by politicians, contractors and some of Forman’s
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(1870-1938)
Born in Amherst, where his father was a lawyer, by the age of 15 Charles was already a
freshman studying law at Dalhousie University. In 1906 he went west, to Winnipeg. In 1908
he was selected by Canadian Pacific Railways to represent the corporation in contract
negotiations with the workers in the mechanical department. In 1931 he was appointed by
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett to the chairmanship of the board of railway commissioners. In
1933, on the resignation of CNR chairman Sir Henry Thornton, Fullerton was named as
chairman of the railway’s three-man board of trustees. He introduced stern
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(1824-1892)
Born in Derby, England, Gisborne was better known for his efforts to establish a
trans-Atlantic telegraph cable between Britain and British North America, part of a scheme
to link the British empire. In this, he preceded Sandford Fleming by several years. In
1869 he was named the head of an English company with interests in the Cape Breton coal
mines, and as such, he pioneered the creation of the narrow gauge railway between Sydney
and Louisbourg.
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(1835–1902)
Pictou County educator and author, he was educated at the University of Glasgow,
returning to the ministry in Halifax where Sandford Fleming was a member of his
congregation. He acted as Fleming’s secretary on the survey trip for the Canadian
Pacific Railway, and his book, Ocean to Ocean (1873), is an account of his
experiences. The book created excitement in the settlement of the west, and promoted
Fleming as an heroic figure. It is possible he authored Fleming’s history of the
Intercolonial Railway (1876). |
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