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Title: Sandford Fleming, empire builder
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone), 1873-1946
Subjects: Fleming, Sandford, Sir, 1827-1915 Railroads
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ry from his learned counsel. Tut, tut! I said, of course the lawyers will have noneof it. No doubt from their point of view its a most irre-gular and improper proceeding. But take the agreementinto court, both of you, and read it to the judge, telling himthat it is satisfactory to both of you, and that neither of youcare to continue the case at his own expense. They did so,and the matter was settled in five minutes. The settlementwas left in the hands of a board of arbitrators consisting oftwo hydraulic engineers and an umpire. Later in the morning I made my way to the station, withColeman on one arm and Macdonald on the other, a pro-cession of thirty or forty witnesses and others following.Blake and Richards, who evidently regarded me as animpudent interloper, stood coldly aloof. As the train wasabout to start, Coleman put in my hand a letter whichturned out to be a very kind acknowledgement of apprecia-tion and a handsome cheque from each—my first and lastfee as an amateur lawyer.
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vSaxdford Fleming in 1S60 CHAPTER V PLEADING THE CAUSE OF THE RED RIVERCOLONY In 1863, the year that he severed his connexion with theNorthern Railway, Fleming was asked on behalf of thepeople of the Red River Colony to present to the Canadianand Imperial Governments a memorial praying for theestablishment of means of communication between theeastern provinces and British Columbia, by way of LakeSuperior, the Red River Country, and the Saskatchewan. At that time he had not visited the Red River Colony,but for some years had been a warm advocate of the policyof building a railway across British North America from theAtlantic to the Pacific, and as a preliminary measure theprovision of a road from Lake Superior to the Red RiverColony and the mountains. In 1858 he had publisheda lecture on the subject, and in 1862 had gone into thematter more fully in his Practical Observations on the Con-struction of a Continuous Line of Railway from Canada tothe Pacific Ocean on British Territory/ publ

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