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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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d not yet been decided. It was on this new sectionof the road that Sandford Fleming was for the most partengaged in 1852. Five separate routes were surveyedfrom Barrie : north-east to Penetanguishene; north-east toVictoria Bay; north and north-west to Nottawasaga; westand north to Nottawasaga; and west and north-west toCollingwood. Finally the last route was decided upon as thebest from an engineering and commercial standpoint. Collingwood has been mentioned as the terminus of theroute selected for the railway, but as a matter of fact no suchplace existed in 1852. A few years before a small settlementhad sprung up on the shores of Georgian Bay, namedHurontario, after the pioneer road known as HurontarioStreet. The place selected as the terminus of the Ontario,Simcoe, and Huron Railway was a little west of this, andwas then known as Hen-and-Chickens, on account of thenumber of small islands that studded the shore. WhenCumberland, Fleming, E. C. Hancock, Sheriff B. W. Smith, *¥■:. ;_
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BUILDING THE NORTHERN RAILWAY 53 and others interested in the proposed terminus, came overto the bay in 1852, they were met by several residentsof the neighbourhood, and after going over the ground verycarefully, the Hen-and-Chickens was found to be the mostsatisfactory point for the terminus and for the town that wasto be. A local chronicler says that while stopping at a rockwhich peered above the deep snow on the shores of theharbour, the discussion turned to the name of the new town.Mr. Cumberland suggested Victoria in honour of the Queen ;others thought it well to retain the existing name of Hen-and-Chickens ; while Mr. D. E. Buist offered the name ofCollingwood, already borne by a neighbouring township.The latter name was accepted as the most suitable/ There-upon the infant town of Collingwood was christened witha bottle of wine. In honour of the occasion, Mr. Stephens,a well-to-do farmer of Nottawasaga, gave a dinner to thedirectors and engineers of the railway, and a number of

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