Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Canadian businessman, politician and philanthropist (1820-1914) · Canada · Politicians · Died at 93
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Lord Strathcona circa 1913
″Canada in London″ by Leslie Ward, caricature of Lord Strathcona in Vanity Fair, 1900
Smith drives the Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 7 November 1885, Craigellachie, British Columbia
Strathcona Music Building on Sherbrooke Street, Montreal. Originally known as Royal Victoria College and was built in 1884 by Strathcona for the higher education of women.
The vault of Lord Strathcona, Highgate Cemetery, London
Isabella Sophia, Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal, by William Notman
Strathcona Park, OttawaAwards
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Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal,, known as Sir Donald A. Smith between May 1886 and August 1897, was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman who became one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner, governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was president of the Bank of Montreal and with his first cousin, George Stephen, co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and afterwards represented Montreal in the House of Commons of Canada. He was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1896 to 1914. He was chairman of Burmah Oil and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. He was chancellor of McGill University (1889-1914) and the University of Aberdeen.
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