Old Photograph Glencoe House Scotland

Old photograph of Glencoe House in the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was designed by Rowand Anderson, it was built in 1895 by Lord Strathcona for his wife, Isabella. Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal was a Scottish born Canadian 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, Lord Mount Stephen, co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was born 6 August 1820, on Forres High Street, in Moray. He was the second son of Alexander Smith and his wife Barbara Stuart, daughter of Donald Stuart of Leanchoil, Upper Strathspey, descended from Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany.His father, whose family had lived at Archiestown Cottage as crofters at Knockando, became a saddler at Forres after trying his hand at farming and soldiering. He emigrated to Lower Canada in 1838 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company, becoming a clerk for the organization in 1842.



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