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Автор: Jesse Russell
Год: 2013
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 124
ISBN: 9785508940270
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL (6 August 1820 – 21 January 1914) was a Scottish-born Canadian who became one of the British Empires foremost builders and philanthropists. He became Commissioner, Governor and principle 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 Canadian House of Commons. 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 (1899-1914) and Aberdeen University. He lived in Montreal's Golden Square Mile. In 1895, he purchased an estate in Scotland, building and living at Glencoe House. In 1905, he purchased the Island of Colonsay...
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