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Lord Strathcona: A Biography of Donald Alexander Smith
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Lord Strathcona: A Biography of Donald Alexander Smith
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| Abstract |
A biography of Montreal businessman Donald Alexander Smith, Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914). According to the publisher, this book “brings to light new information about this man who joined the Hudson's Bay Company when he was just eighteen and went on to build first the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway (which opened the Canadian Northwest to settlement) then the nation-building Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1896, Donald Smith became Canada's High Commissioner in London and was soon elevated to the peerage." "Railways made Lord Strathcona a rich man, and the became a generous benefactor to such institutions as the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Royal Victoria College at McGill, the University of Manitoba and Victoria's Royal Jubilee Hospital. The book also reveals new details about his personal life, including his marriage, which was the source of so much gossip during his lifetime."
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Toronto, ON
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Dundurn Press
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1996
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600p.
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en
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| Citation |
McDonald, Donna. Lord Strathcona: A Biography of Donald Alexander Smith. Toronto, ON: Dundurn Press, 1996.
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