On Jan. 21, Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona, died. Born in Scotland, he became one of the foremost builders and philanthropists in the British Empire in his life. He served as the commissioner, governor and main shareholder of the Hudson’s Bay Company...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at It is one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history, when a group of people were looking for a better life and were turned away by the government simply because of the country they came from...