The Life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M. G, G. C.V.O.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. Presumed first U.S. edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. 2 volume set. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. Volume I: xiv, 543, [1]; Volume II, [v], 532, [1] pages. All listed illustrations present. Ex-library. Usual library markings. Cover has some wear and soiling. Pencil erasure reside on feps. Some page discoloration and foxing. Biography of Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona, 1829-1914, Canadian parliamentarian and governor of Hudson's Bay Co. (1889-1914) who also served as High Commissioner (1896-1897). Also includes his service as Canadian Commissioner to Red River to deal with the Riel problem. Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, of Mount Royal in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada and of Glencoe in the County of Argyll, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1900 for the Scottish-born Canadian financier and politician Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal. Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL, FRS (6 August 1820 - 21 January 1914), was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman who became one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner, governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was president of the Bank of Montreal and with his first cousin, Lord Mount Stephen, co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and afterwards represented Montreal in the House of Commons of Canada. He was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1896 to 1914. He was chairman of Burmah Oil and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. He was chancellor of McGill University (1889-1914) and Aberdeen University. He personally raised Lord Strathcona's Horse, who saw their first action in the Boer War. King Edward VII called him "Uncle Donald"