2549 Brunswick Street, Halifax, NS B3K 2Z5 Phone: (902)423-1219 Fax: (902)492-0704 House Director: Tess Warner

The Saint Leonard's Society of Nova Scotia was founded in 1968, in affiliation with Saint Leonard's Society of Canada. In January 1984, the Society opened Sir Sanford Fleming House (SSFH), a Community Based Residential Facility, at 2549 Brunswick Street, Halifax. 

Sir Sanford Fleming House utilizes an effective, modern and practical approach to the age old problem of reintegrating people who are being discharged from prison(s) into the general community. It is an approach consisting of supervised residential service in conjunction with counselling and job placement.

Sir Sanford Fleming House can accommodate 21 male residents. It is administered by a volunteer Board of Directors consisting of local citizens. The facility is named after Sir Sanford Fleming, who was the original owner of this house.

History of Our Namesake, Sir Sandford Fleming:
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, Sir Sanford Fleming was a prominent civil engineer and scientist. After emigrating to Canada in 1845, Fleming began working as an engineer in the emerging Canadian railway system in 1863. He later became Chief Engineer of the Intercolonial Railway (1867-76) and of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1872-80). He surveyed several famous routes, including Yellowhead and Kicking Horse passes.

After retiring from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1880, Fleming concentrated on various scholarly and technological pursuits, including the development of a scheme for a telegraph communication system for the British empire, the first link being a cable under the Pacific from Canada to Australia.

Fleming's most notable achievement, however, was the development of the notion of standard time, according to which the world is divided up into 24 different time zones. His efforts led to the International Prime Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. in 1884, at which the modern system of worldwide standard time was adopted internationally.

Fleming was knighted in 1897.

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