Lord Strathcona : a biography of Donald Alexander Smith
by Donna McDonald
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1550022660
- ISBN 13
- 9781550022667
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo,. grey cloth, gilt spine, 600 pages., [16] pages of plates,) : illustrated., ports., a fine copy in afine dust jacket, 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..
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- Bookseller
- Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112557467
- Title
- Lord Strathcona : a biography of Donald Alexander Smith
- Author
- Donna McDonald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1550022660
- ISBN 13
- 9781550022667
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8 vo,
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hudson's Bay Company -- Biography, Canadian Pacific Railway -- Biography., Capitalists and financiers -- Canada -- Biography.,Politicians -- Canada -- Biography., Canada -- History -- 1841-, Hudson's Bay Company.,Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; Railroads/Transportation;
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Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
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