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...
The year is 1941. War rages throughout Europe as Nazi Germany marches seemingly at will over the continent. England is doing its best to hold off invasion, but the near nightly bombings by the Germans have gone on unabated since September of 1940...