eeply incensed at
secularization of King's College, 94; his mistaken policy, 94-95;
establishes Trinity College, 95; his uncompromising attitude in
settlement of Clergy Reserves, 150; induces Sir John Colborne to create
and endow forty-four rectories, 154; his report on this question, 156;
dominant influence in Legislative Council, 157; opposes division of the
Reserves, 159, 160; his final discomfiture, 169. =Mc= Proposes
provincial university, 95. =Md= First bishop of Toronto, opposes
secularization of King's College, 29-30; also opposes secularization of
Clergy Reserves, 59. =W= His charter for King's College, Upper Canada,
51. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Rose, _Cyc. Can. Biog._; Dent, _Can.
Por._; Bethune, _Memoir of Bishop Strachan_; Mockridge, _The Bishops of
the Church of England in Canada and Newfoundland_.
=Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Alexander Smith, Baron= (1820- ).
Born in Archieston, Morayshire, Scotland. Entered the service of the
Hudson's Bay Company, 1838, and spent thirteen years at various
trading-posts on the Labrador coast. Moved to the North-West, becoming
chief factor, 1862; and afterwards resident governor and chief
commissioner. Appointed by the Dominion government, in 1869, special
commissioner to investigate the Riel Rebellion. Member of first
Executive Council of the North-West Territories, 1870; represented
Winnipeg in Manitoba Legislature, 1871-1874; elected for Selkirk to
Dominion House, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1878; and represented West Montreal,
1887-1896. Appointed high commissioner for Canada in London, 1896.
Knighted, 1886, and in 1897 raised to the peerage. =Index=: =D= Dugald
McTavish succeeds, at Montreal, 1870, 265; drives last spike of Canadian
Pacific Railway, Nov. 7, 1885, 326. =MS= Serves under Sir George Simpson
in Hudson's Bay Company, 228; chief factor (1861), 228; serves in
Labrador, 228. =Md= Takes part in debate on Pacific Scandal, 210; feels
that the future of the West depends on Macdonald's return to power, 236;
public spirit shown by, in building of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
237. =Bib.=: Willson, _Lord Strathcona_; Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Who's
Who_. _See also_ Riel Rebellion, 1869-1870.
=Street, George F.= =W= Solicitor-general of Brunswick, 34.
=Street, John Ambrose.= =W= Supports the governor of New Brunswick, 46.
=T= Attorney-general and leader of government, 19; introduces railway
resolutions, 26, 53. =Bib.=: Hannay, _History of New Brunswick_.
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