Author: Donna McDonald
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459714954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book 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.
Lord Strathcona
Author: Donna McDonald
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459714954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book 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.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459714954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book 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.
Biography of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal
Author: James William Pedley
Publisher: Toronto, Nichols
ISBN:
Category : Canada History 19th century
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Toronto, Nichols
ISBN:
Category : Canada History 19th century
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.0
Author: Beckles Willson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Lord Strathcona
Author: John Macnaughton
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Lord Strathcona
Author: Beckles Willson
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Law Times Reports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law
Author: Great Britain. Courts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Canada. Department of Marine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Canada. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.
The Canadian National Record for Swine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swine
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swine
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description