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Title: Pillars of empire, studies & impressions;
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Courtney, W. L. (William Leonard), 1850-1928 Courtney, Janet Elizabeth Hogarth, 1865-
Subjects: Statesmen -- Great Britain Imperialism Great Britain -- Biography Great Britain -- Politics and government 19th century
Publisher: London, Jarrolds
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ of Elgin,the second son of Alexander Smith, a Highland merchant,and Barbara Stewart, whose brother, John Stewart,a famous fur trader in the Hudson Bay Companysterritories, gave his name to Stewart Lake and StewartRiver. Donald Smith went to school in Forres and at 70
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LORD STRATHCONA LORD STRATHCONA 71 sixteen entered the office of the town clerk of the burgh.But he stayed but a short while at the law, beingpresently sent by his mother to kinsmen of her ownat Manchester. These were the brothers Grant, a pairof Manchestj^ merchants, whom Dickens once metand afterwards immortalized in Nicholas Nickleby asthe Cheeryble Brothers. They would have taken theboy into their office, and so would another relative, anEast India merchant, but at this juncture John Stewartwrote offering him a junior clerkship in the serviceof the Hudson Bay Compan)^ and young Donald,to whom Canada spelt romance and the realization ofhis boyhoods dreams, accepted the offer withenthusiasm. It was a hard life to which he went out. As he toldan Oxford audience more than half a century later,this first voyage of his took between forty and fiftydays. He suffered grievously from sea-sickness, theship met with much fog and many icebergs, and onarrival he was at once appointed an apprent

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