Special visitor for Fleming exhibit
August 31, 2015
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The ongoing exhibition on the life of former »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s chancellor Sir Sandford Fleming at the W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library received a special visitor on Friday, Aug. 28 from the community college named in his honour.
Tony Tilly, president of Sir Sandford Fleming College, visited the exhibition along with »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s Principal Daniel Woolf and received a guided tour from curator Alvan Bregman and Deirdre Bryden of »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s University Archives.
The exhibition is being held to mark the 100th anniversary of Sir Sandford Fleming’s death. Among his many accomplishments – such as his work surveying large swathes of Canada, building the Canadian Pacific Railroad and developing Standard Time – Sir Sandford Fleming served as chancellor of »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s for 35 years, from 1880 until his death in 1915.
Fleming College has campuses located in Peterborough, Lindsay, Haliburton and Cobourg.