Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, known as Sir Donald A. Smith between May 1886 and August 1897, was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman who became one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner, governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was president of the Bank of Montreal and with his first cousin, George Stephen, co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and afterwards represented Montreal in the House of Commons of Canada. 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 (1889–1914) and the University of Aberdeen.
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Lord Strathcona circa 1913
″Canada in London″ by Leslie Ward, caricature of Lord Strathcona in Vanity Fair, 1900
Smith drives the Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 7 November 1885, Craigellachie, British Columbia
The Bank of Montreal is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company.
Operating headquarters in Toronto, Canada
Austin Cuvillier co-founded BMO with nine other businessmen in June 1817.
Bank of Montreal on an 1844 Province of Canada Token.
$5 BMO banknote, from 1942. The year was the last that the bank issued its own banknotes for circulation.