We much regret to record the death of Lord Strathcona,
which occurred on Wednesday, in his ninety-fourth year—at least Lord Strathcona believed that that was his age, though some of his friends maintained that lie was two years older. His name will be for ever associated with the making of Canada. In his obscure youth Donald Smith went from Scotland to enter the service of the Hudson Bay Company. He began by living for thirteen years remote from civilization in the snow, hearing news of the outer world at most once a year. He rose steadily from the bottom of the Company's service as a far-trader to be its Governor; and when the Company was superseded by the Canadian Government he changed his enormously successful business career for public life of another kind at the age of fifty. He became a great politician and a great banker. He was an originator of the Canadian Pacific; Railway, and he nursed it with extraordinary courage tsnd personal generosity through its lean years. He was best known to Englishmen as High Commissioner for Canada, and as the creator and sole maintainer of Stmtheona's Horse in the Boer War. He was a man of princely open-handedness, shrewd judgment, high patriotism, and unassailable personal honour.
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