Show j r IA A SELF MADE MAN tONE ION OF TH THE TI UNUSUAL PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PROD PROD- PROD PROD- OF GREAT BRITAIN Lord I Strathcona Das Use Lately Been Beca Madea Made lae a Canadian Sketch Peer Peer ree Sketch of or a Self Self- Made Macle Man llIan Who Has IIa KUen Tilden to Wealth and sad Power rower An English-Canadian English baron peer of or her majesty's realm chancellor of or Mc- Mc McGill Gill University at Montreal resident governor of or the Hudson Bay Co Company pany and also claiming the interest of or the United States Stated as president of or the Bank Dank Dankof of Montreal Chicago Montreal and London and as a director of the St. St Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba r rail railway way and the Great Northern railway of or Minnesota Is Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal His recent prominence In connection with the governor generalship generalship gen gen- lends additional Interest to the new member of or the tho house of lords whose projects have been almost as Intimately Identified with the United States as they have with Canada Since the tempestuous days of 37 31 no such Interest In the governor generalship general general- ship ship has has been shown In Canada as has been manifested the past year After Atter the departure of Lord Dufferin the ap appointment appointment ap- ap of the queens queen's son-in-law son to u hall seemed a nearer drawing of the dominion to the throne of or Eng Eng- land It amounted to little more than thana a deserved compliment however and things Jogged along after atter the same old t 1 I. I oJ 1 cr crI wr C I I 1 r i II II I ti I 4 I i ami 2 j a LORD STRATHCONA x f fashion fashion until a French-Canadian French liberal lib lib- lIbl liberal l jeral eral gave promise In his election to the premiership of or making radical chang chang- les es Would the mother land give Canada Canada Can- Can ada lada a successor to Lord Aberdeen from among the representative men who had wrought out the destiny of the young nation If It such l ch a a. departure from British conservatism had been made made It was an open secret that vice regal honors would have fallen to Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal The time for such home rule has not come comeIn comeIn In the dominion however and Lord military secretary to Lord Lordt t s Lansdowne during the Riel rebellion has received the approbation of Windsor Wind Wind- sor Bor castle and Canada as Aberdeen's successor But it does not alter the fact that in London as high commis- commis and peer of the realm Lord 1 Strathcona stands as one of the strongest strong strong- est eat factors In Canadian politics His His lordships lordship's latest project in rela- rela to colonization which it Is said will shortly be submitted to the government government gov- gov Is unique It Is to establish agricultural and colonial schools where youths from Great Britain will be trained In farming mining and ranchIng ranching ranching ranch- ranch Ing coupled with a a. military education These schools will be established at Brandon Winnipeg Calgary and else- else In buildings erected at government government government govern govern- ment expense At the end of throe three years those government who give satisfaction will receive dl diplomas fin in addition to donations of eighty tor to r acres of lande land e It is not generally known In the United States that Lord Strathcona I as las Sir Donald Smith participated largely In the early development of our own northwest and that he has capital Invested with us whether w eth w we like It or not When the decree to create the first baron of ot s sy y and Mount Royal was decided deeMed upon ul-On as a a. Jubilee tribute to Sir Donald Smith It was Judged appropriate to confer upon him the title of Mount Royal Montreal In Montreal In remembrance of his princely donations to that city It was likewise deemed proper proper- to permit per per- mit the new barons baron's use of the beaver Canadas Canada's heraldic animal the animal the emblem emblem emblem em em- blem of perseverance as a charge on his escutcheon But when It came to combining with Mount Royal Glencoe Glencoe Glencoe Glen coe the name of Sir Donalds Donald's highland highland highland high high- land estate as was first intended that tha was quite another affair Glencoe was an acquisition by purchase neither conquest nor Inheritance having anything anything anything any any- thing to do with It a tact fact that constituted constituted const cause for annoyance in the breasts of some of the sensitive descendants descendants descendants de de- de- de of ot the lairds of Glencoe The future laird of that estate however however however how how- ever was equal to the emergency emergency Glen and Strath are said to be synonyms synonyms synonyms for small ravine while both coe coo and cona cons mean stream making Glencoe and Strathcona to mean vIrtually virtually virtually vir vir- the same thing When as Donald Alexander Smith the adventurous son of a Scotch gentleman gentleman gentleman gen gen- he preferred the dangers of a a. pioneers pioneer's life to the ease of a a. civil service service service ser ser- vice existence at home he tramped from Montreal to the grim shores of Labrador voluntarily exiling himself for fifteen years where supplies even from civilization reached him but twice a a. year This experience ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- resulted In his appointment as the governor of the great Hudson Bay Fur Company the oldest company en en- gag d In business on earth having been Incorporated by Charles II U. In 1670 Lord Strathcona's Canadian home Isone isone Is Isone one of Montreal's show places Its I huge granite pile with conical towers I was built a few years ago Its gallery of paintings contains one of the most famous collections ns of old masters and modern originals In America The history of each canvas or curio and the rare specimens of oriental art that adorn the Japanese and other apartments apartments apart apart- ments menta of this princely home would each be an Interesting theme for a a. story The windows of the great dinIng dinIng dining din- din Ing hall bear portraits of the successive successive successive sive presidents of the Hudson Bay Company and are surmounted by the th monogram H B B. B C. C |