James Richardson Forman was born in 1822 at Halifax, and
returned from Scotland in 1854 to oversee the construction of the
Nova Scotia Railway, the first publicly owned railway in the
British Empire. But did he become a victim of Nova Scotia's venal
politics? He had been appointed to his post at the request of
Reformer Joseph Howe, but was dismissed from office in 1858 by
James W. Johnston, who became Conservative premier of the province
in 1857. Two years after he left for a brilliant career in
Scotland, it was discovered that most of the reasons for his
dismissal were the fault of his second-in-command, who was also
Johnston's nephew
From Folly to Fortune examines the unfair treatment Forman
received at the hands of his Nova Scotia countrymen, and asks the
question if it could have been Forman, and not Sandford Fleming,
who would later (in 1867 to 1876) have built Canada's Intercolonial
Railway from Nova Scotia to Quebec City, had he been allowed to
stay on the project.
Jay Underwood is a former Nova Scotia journalist. From Folly to
Fortune is the second of his books published by Railfare*DC books,
and the fourth of his works on Canadian railway history.
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