Lord Strathcona, a biography of Donald Alexander Smith, Donna McDonald
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- Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- Biography
- Hudson's Bay Company -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Canada -- History -- 1867-1914 -- Biography
- Capitalists and financiers -- Canada -- Biography
- Canada -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Biography
- Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Alexander Smith, Baron, 1820-1914
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Lord Strathcona, a biography of Donald Alexander Smith, Donna McDonald
Language
eng
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Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Lord Strathcona
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Donna McDonald
Sub title
a biography of Donald Alexander Smith
Summary
Donald Smith, known to most Canadians as Lord Strathcona, was an adventurer who made his fortune building railroads. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company at age eighteen and went on to build the first railway to open the Canadian Northwest to settlement. As his crowning achievement, he drove the last spike for the nation-building Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1896, Smith became Canada's High Commissioner in London and was soon elevated to the peerage. He became a generous benefactor to Canadian institutions. This eminently readable biography brings to light new information, including details about Strathcona's personal life and his scandalous marriage
Target audience
adult
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