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KINGSFORD, WILLIAM (1819-1898)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 817 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KINGSFORD, WILLIAM (1819-1898) , British engineer and Canadian historian, was born in London on the 23rd of December 1819. He first studied architecture, but disliking the confinement of an office enlisted in the 1st Dragoon
Guards
 , obtaining his discharge in Canada in 1841. After serving for a time in the office of the city surveyor of Montreal he made a survey for the Lachine canal (1846-1848), and was employed in the United States in the building of the
Hudson
  River railroad in 1849, and in Panama on the railroad being constructed there in 1851. In 1853 he was surveyor and, afterwards
district
  superintendent for the Grand Trunk railroad, remaining in the employment of that company until 1864. The following year he went to England but returned to Canada in 1867 in the
hope
  of taking
part
  in the construction of the Intercolonial Railway. In this he was unsuccessful, but from 1872 to 1879 he held a government post in charge of the harbours of the
Great
  Lakes and the St Lawrence. He had previously written books on engineering and topographical subjects, and in 188o he began to study the records of Canadian history at Ottawa. Among other books he published Canadian Archaeology (1886) and Early Bibliography of Ontario (1892). But the
great
 
work
  of his
life
  was a History of Canadain 10 volumes (1887-1897), ending with the
union
  of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841. Kingsford died on the 28th of September 1898.


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