1883 - Standard Time is Adopted by Canada. Josiah Henson Dies in Dresden, Ontario (February 18, 2017)

150 Years Of Canada

On November 18, 1883, railroads of the United States and Canada adopt Standard Time. Although Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor Sir Sanford Fleming is often thought of as the father of Standard Time, he is actually not the creator of this great innovation (please see link). He did, however, first propose the establishment of Universal Standard Time, a tool which is used throughout the world today.

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On May 5, 1883, the great author, Christian minister and abolitionist Josiah Henson dies in Dresden, Ontario (see link). Born a slave in Maryland in 1789, he escaped to Ontario, Canada in 1830 and became the inspiration for the vert influential anti slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (see link) which was published in 1852, three year's after Josiah Henson's autobiography The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (see link).

Josiah Henson. Source of image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Josiah_Henson_bw.jpg

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Uncle Tom's Cabin Historical Site, Dresden, Ontario.
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1983 Canada Post postage stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Josiah Henson's death.
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