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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_. =Stricklan
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