Sir Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL (6 August 1820 – 21 January 1914) was a Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.
Smith was born in Forres, in Moray, Scotland to Alexander Smith, a saddler, and Barbera Stuart. On leaving school at the age of 16 he briefly apprenticed to become a lawyer in the town clerk's office.
He married Isabella Sophia, Baroness Strathcona...
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Sir Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL (6 August 1820 – 21 January 1914) was a Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.
Smith was born in Forres, in Moray, Scotland to Alexander Smith, a saddler, and Barbera Stuart. On leaving school at the age of 16 he briefly apprenticed to become a lawyer in the town clerk's office.
He married Isabella Sophia, Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal, the daughter of Richard Hardisty, Esquire, of the Hudson's Bay Company. She was presented to the King and Queen, March 13, 1903. The couple lived at 53 Cadogan Square, London; Knebworth House, Stevenage, Herts, England; Glencoe, Scotland; and 1157 Dorchester Street, Montreal.
Their daughter, Hon. Margaret Charlotte Howard, was the wife of Robert J. B. Howard, Esquire. Isabella Sophia and her daughter donated $100,000 to McGill University in Montreal to erect of a new wing to its Medical Building.
He emigrated to Lower Canada...
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