Lord Strathcona

A Biography of Donald Alexander Smith

ByDonna McDonald

Published September 2002

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Description

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.

Reviews

McDonald has written an engaging, generally laudatory biography that is rich in detail and provides considerable insight into the sources of Smith's great wealth.

Canadian Book Review Annual

Contributors

Donna McDonald

Donna McDonald is a writer and arts administrator who lives in London but works throughout Britain. She is the author of Illustrated News: The Canadian Pictures of Juliana Horatia Ewing (Dundurn 1985) and The Odyssey of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Editions Bim, 1986). She is married to a fellow Canadian, writer Robert McDonald.

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Book Details

ePub
September 2002
-
600 pp
9781459714953

Paperback
September 2002
6x9 in
600 pp
9781550023978

ePub
September 2002
-
600 pp
9781554882175