80-524: The Northern Journal was a weekly newspaper based out of Fort Smith , Northwest Territories , Canada . The newspaper was founded in 1977 as the Slave River Journal. In 2011, owner and publisher Don Jaque renamed the paper to expand its coverage beyond Fort Smith. The Northern Journal had a stated circulation of 4,000, as of June 2013. Coverage of the Northern Journal included Fort Smith,
160-579: A portage route, long established by indigenous peoples, from what is now Fort Fitzgerald on the western bank of the Slave River to Fort Smith. This route allowed its users to bypass the four sets of impassable rapids (Cassette Rapids, Pelican Rapids, Mountain Rapids, and Rapids of the Drowned). The portage trail had been traditionally used for centuries by generations of local Indigenous peoples . The make up of
240-598: A saddler at Forres after trying his hand at farming and soldiering. Donald was also a first cousin of the successful and notably philanthropic Grant brothers of Manchester , who were reputedly immortalised as the "Cheeryble Brothers" in Charles Dickens ' book, Nicholas Nickleby . Donald's mother was the sister of the Canadian explorer John Stuart , partner of the North West Company who rose to become Chief Factor of
320-584: A change of -11.6% from its 2016 population of 2,542 . With a land area of 91.21 km (35.22 sq mi), it had a population density of 24.6/km (63.8/sq mi) in 2021. According to the 2016 census, the majority of people in Fort Smith (1,645) were Indigenous of which 920 were First Nations , 585 were Métis and 135 Inuit . The main languages are English, Chipewyan ( Dene ), Cree , Dogrib ( Tłı̨chǫ ), Slavey-Hare , Inuinnaqtun ( Inuvialuktun ) and Inuktitut . Local government consists of
400-541: A compromise between Thomas Greenway and the federal government during the Manitoba school crisis of the 1890s. Prime Minister Sir Mackenzie Bowell wanted Smith to succeed him in 1896, but Smith refused. The position of Prime Minister instead went to Sir Charles Tupper , who appointed Smith as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom on 24 April 1896. Sir Wilfrid Laurier retained Smith as High Commissioner following
480-567: A favourable impression on the HBC's directors. In 1868, he was promoted to Commissioner of the Montreal department, managing the HBC's eastern operations. That same year, Smith joined with George Stephen , Richard Bladworth Angus , and Andrew Paton to establish the textile manufactory, Paton Manufacturing Company, in Sherbrooke . In 1869, the government of John A. Macdonald held the HBC accountable for
560-516: A further £1 million (not including private gifts and allowances) to a huge variety of charitable causes across Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. He personally raised Strathcona's Horse , who saw their first action in the Second Boer War . He funded the building of Leanchoil Hospital . He and his first cousin, Lord Mount Stephen, purchased the land and then each gave $ 1 million to
640-518: A junior clerkship in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. Smith chose to follow his uncle's career and sailed to Montreal that year. Smith emigrated to Lower Canada in 1838 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), becoming a clerk for the organization in 1842. He was given administrative control over the seigneury of Mingan (in modern Labrador ) in late 1843, where his innovative methods met with
720-656: A motion over the Pacific Scandal and was thereby partly responsible for the government's defeat. Smith remained an Independent Conservative, but his relations with the official Conservative representatives were often strained in later years. Manitoba abolished the "dual mandate" in 1873, and Smith resigned from the provincial legislature in early 1874 (the first person to do so). In the Canadian general election of 1874 , Smith defeated Liberal candidate Andrew G. B. Bannatyne by 329 votes to 225. The Manitoba Free Press , at
800-604: A partner in the Red River Transportation Company , which gained control over the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in March 1878. His business ventures increasingly dominated his labours, and he formally resigned as land commissioner in early 1879, though he remained a leading figure in the HBC's operations for another 30 years. Smith faced a serious electoral challenge from former Manitoba Lieutenant Governor Alexander Morris in
880-657: A regional medical doctor, and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police opened a detachment. With these developments, Fort Smith became not only the transportation centre for the western Arctic but the administrative centre as well. The mission sawmill produced lumber for the first hospital, St. Anne's, built in 1914 for the Grey Nuns . The sawmill also supplied the lumber for the first school, built in 1915. The Roman Catholic Mission also operated St. Bruno's Farm, which supplied produce, meat, and dairy products. Until it
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#1732851724285960-581: A school for women in 1884 (Royal Victoria College). He was named Chancellor of McGill in 1888, and he held the post until his death. He also bequeathed funds to the Sheffield Scientific School for a science and engineering building and to support two professorships in engineering. He was awarded an honorary degree from Yale University in 1892. He contributed donations to the new University of Birmingham following representations by Joseph Chamberlain . In 1910, Strathcona deposited in trust with
1040-683: A small part in the war effort when huge armies raged across the globe in the Second World War . With a population of 250, Fort Smith hosted 2,000 United States Army soldiers who were en route to the Canol Oil Pipeline Project at Norman Wells and the Canol Road . They brought hundreds of barge loads of supplies; and in order to move these, they built a tractor road from Fort Smith to Hay River and even farther north. The continued gold fever that fuelled Yellowknife's growth also stimulated
1120-627: A viewing platform to oversee the Rapids of the Drowned. In 1970, the Adult Vocational Training Centre was opened. Its operations were later expanded and in 1981 it became Thebacha College. A few years later, Arctic College was created by the government of the Northwest Territories. The Thebacha Campus was home to government headquarters offices. In 1995, the college changed its name to Aurora College in order to allow Nunavut
1200-474: The Bank of England and the Bank of Canada . Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , GCMG , GCVO , PC , DL , FRS (6 August 1820 – 21 January 1914), known as Sir Donald A. Smith between May 1886 and August 1897, was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman who became one of
1280-591: 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 (later Lord Mount Stephen ), co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway . He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and afterwards represented Montreal in
1360-835: The City of Montreal to construct and maintain the Royal Victoria Hospital . He endowed the Lord Strathcona Medal and donated generously to McGill University , Aberdeen University , the Victoria University of Manchester , Yale University , the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund and the Imperial Institute . At McGill , he started the Donalda Program for the purpose of providing higher education for Canadian women, building
1440-604: The Fort Smith Region census division. Fort Smith is accessible all year long via the Fort Smith Highway . A winter road operates for several months to connect Fort Smith to Fort Chipewyan and from there to Fort McMurray. An all-weather road named Pine Lake Road links Fitzgerald . Fort Smith has a dry continental subarctic climate ( Koppen : Dfc) with very long winters combined with warm but relatively short summers. The highest temperature ever recorded in Fort Smith
1520-604: The Freedom of the City of Bath on 13 July 1911. Strathcona was a leading philanthropist in his later years, donating large sums of money to various organizations in Britain, Canada and elsewhere. His largest donations were made with George Stephen, donating the money to build the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal that opened its doors in 1893. Strathcona also made a major donation to McGill University in Montreal, where he helped establish
1600-633: 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 . King Edward VII called him "Uncle Donald". His estate was valued at $ 5.5 million. During his lifetime, and including the bequests left after his death, he gave away just over $ 7.5 million-plus
1680-538: The Hudson's Bay Company . Smith was educated at Anderson's Free School and on leaving at age sixteen he was apprenticed to become a lawyer in the offices of Robert Watson, Town Clerk of Forres. By the age of eighteen, Smith chose another career path: offered entry into mercantile life at Manchester, and a career in the Indian Civil Service , his choice was to pattern himself on his uncle John Stuart (who had by then returned to live near Forres) who offered him
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#17328517242851760-582: The Peerage of the United Kingdom as The 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal . In 1876, the Roman Catholic Mission was moved from Salt River to Fort Smith while the community was prospering. In 1886, the Hudson's Bay Company launched the steam-propelled vessel SS Wrigley to run from Fort Smith to the Mackenzie River. The steamer SS Grahame ran the Slave River from Fort McMurray to
1840-746: The Royal Victoria College on Sherbrooke Street for that purpose in 1886. He also built the Strathcona Medical Building at McGill and endowed its chairs in pathology and hygiene . Born 6 August 1820, on Forres High Street, in Moray , Scotland , he was the second son of Alexander Smith (1786–1841) and his wife Barbara Stuart, daughter of Donald Stuart (b.c.1740) 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
1920-629: The South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. It is located in the southeastern portion of the Northwest Territories, on the Slave River and adjacent to the Alberta border along the 60th parallel north . Fort Smith was founded around the Slave River . It served a vital link for water transportation between southern Canada and the western Arctic. Early fur traders found
2000-646: The Temporary North-West Council the first governing assembly of the North-West Territories . Smith was one of the few people who served on two provincial/territorial legislatures and the federal parliament at the same time. Smith broke with Macdonald in 1873, after the Prime Minister had delayed reimbursement for Smith's earlier expenses in Red River. Smith voted to censure the government in
2080-526: The general election of 1878 . Aided on this occasion by the Manitoba Free Press , Smith defeated Morris by 555 votes to 546; local Conservative organizers protested the result, and it was overturned two years later. On 10 September 1880, Smith was defeated by former Winnipeg Mayor Thomas Scott , 735 votes to 577. In May 1879, Smith became a director in the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company , having control over 20% of its shares. He
2160-600: The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the Victoria University of Manchester , in connection with the 50th jubilee of the establishment of the university. He received the honorary degree Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library . He was sworn in as a Member of the Imperial Privy Council in 1904. He received
2240-529: The 1780s he established a post on Lake Athabasca called Fort Chipewyan , at the head of the Slave River. Dominated by the activities of the Hudson's Bay Company , the fur trade penetrated more deeply into the Mackenzie River district in the 19th century. York boats were used to run the Slave River rapids and, where needed, small portages were established to bypass the most dangerous areas. Nonetheless, serious mishaps were bound to happen. This section of
2320-582: The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad offices and in the Hudson's Bay Company [this has a repainted background]), and the artist also presented his 1899 bust-length charcoal and crayon drawing of Strathcona to McGill University in Montreal in 1916. The Town of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories is named after Donald Smith. There is a stained glass window memorializing him in Westminster Abbey . His coat of arms appears over
2400-717: The Dominion Government the sum of $ 500,000, bearing an annual interest of 4%, to develop citizenship and patriotism, for example in the Royal Canadian Army Cadets movement, through physical training, rifle shooting, and military drill. A Syllabus of Physical Exercises for Schools was published by the Trust in 1911. He is remembered today by the Cadets with the Lord Strathcona Medal . Lord Strathcona died in 1914 in London and
2480-612: The Indigenous population of the region shifted as the fortunes of the tribes changed. By 1870, the Slavey had moved north and the Cree had occupied the Slave River Valley. The Chipewyan had also begun moving into the area. Peter Pond of the North West Company was the first white trader recorded to have traveled on the Slave River and made contact with Indigenous peoples in this region. In
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2560-775: The Island of Oronsay , both on the Hebridean coast of Scotland . He kept a house in London and after his appointment as Canadian High Commissioner leased Knebworth House from 1899 until his death. He was given a full state funeral at Westminster Abbey , where a memorial stands to his memory, and would have been entombed there but he preferred to rest next to his wife, who pre-deceased him by several months, in Highgate Cemetery . His obituary in The Times of London read in part, With no advantage of birth or fortune he made himself one of
2640-593: The Liberal election victory of 1896 , although his powers were somewhat undercut. He was created Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , of Glencoe in the County of Argyll and of Mount Royal in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada , in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , on 23 August 1897, as part of the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours . He had already been made KCMG on 29 May 1886, promoted to GCMG on 20 May 1896, and
2720-424: The Mackenzie River. This group was taken over by the HBC in 1924. By the 1930s, a significant part of the Fort Smith economy was centred around ship and barge building. The HBC and Northern Transportation Company Limited (NTCL) established shipyards below Fort Smith. Wood Buffalo National Park was established in 1922; its operations and administration headquarters were in Fort Smith. In 1924, Fort Smith received
2800-525: The N.W.T.'s South Slave region, Fort Chipewyan and the oilsands industry near Fort McMurray. Staff were based in the Fort Smith newsroom, although the newspaper also relied on freelancers across the Northwest Territories and had regular contributors based in Yellowknife. Jaque announced on March 1, 2016 that the newspaper would be closing because of "a perfect storm" of circumstances. The region's small population and business community made it difficult to keep
2880-461: The Northwest Territories' vast region. See history of Northwest Territories capital cities . On Friday August 9, 1968, disaster struck Fort Smith when a landslide some 1,010 by 300 m (3,300 by 990 ft) broke away from the riverbank; it caused property damage and killed one person. The riverbank area has since been sloped to stabilize it. Reshaped as a gentle hillside, it is known as Riverbank Park, and features groomed trails, picnic areas, and
2960-619: The Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, and of Glencoe in the County of Argyll, on 26 June 1900. He was Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen (1899–1902), and he received the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen in a ceremony on 9 April 1902. On 12 February 1902, he was appointed an Honorary Colonel of the 8th (Volunteer) Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment) , and the same month he received
3040-457: The Slave River became known as 'The Rapids of the Drowned'. In 1872, the Hudson's Bay Company built an outpost called Smith's Landing (Fort Fitzgerald) at the most southern set of the Slave River rapids. In 1874, another outpost was constructed at the most northern set of rapids. It was called Fort Smith. Both posts were named in honour of Donald Alexander Smith , who in August 1897, was elevated to
3120-749: The Strathcona Desjardins Credit Union bears his name, with offices downtown Montreal and in Kirkland. The credit union members were historically from the English-speaking hospitals of Montreal, but since recent mergers also include the Montreal area, English-speaking teachers. The Strathcona family mansion in Montreal on Dorchester Street (now René Lévesque Boulevard ) near Fort Street was torn down in 1941 to make way for an apartment building. Strathcona Avenue, located in Westmount (a suburb on
3200-748: The Town of Fort Smith Council with 9 members (7 councillors, deputy mayor and mayor). The mayor works part-time and council is elected every three years. As of 2021 the current mayor of Fort Smith is Fred Daniels. Fort Smith is represented by the Salt River First Nation #195 and are part of the Akaitcho Territory Government . As of June 2012, the Salt River First Nation had given the Akaitcho Territory Government
3280-447: The company that had made his name. Smith was also involved in the newspaper industry in his later years. His attempt to take over the Toronto Globe in 1882 was unsuccessful, though he took effective control of the Manitoba Free Press from William Fisher Luxton in 1893. In 1889, he was the principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company and was elected as its 26th governor, holding this position until his death in 1914. Smith
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3360-470: The conduct of the Second Boer War (the Elgin Commission 1902–1903). He was involved in the creation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company , of which he became the chairman in 1909. Lord Strathcona subsequently used his influence to make the company a major supplier of the Royal Navy . He was granted a second creation of the Barony, with a Special Remainder in favour of his daughter Margaret Charlotte Howard, as Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , of Mount Royal in
3440-402: The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway rail line. Smith remained on the board of directors for several years, although he was by-passed for the company's presidency in 1888, in favour of William Cornelius Van Horne . Smith became extremely wealthy through his investments, and he was involved in a myriad of Canadian and American corporations in the latter part of the 19th century. He
3520-415: The disapproval of HBC governor Sir George Simpson . The Mingan post burned down in 1846, and Smith left for Montreal the following year. He returned in 1848, and remained in Labrador until the 1860s, administering the fur trade and salmon fishing within the region. In 1862, Smith was promoted as the company's Chief Factor in charge of the Labrador district. He travelled to London in 1865, and made
3600-429: The disturbances reported in the Red River Colony , which was part of the proposed purchase of the original part of Rupert's Land from the HBC. The person in charge of HBC's nominal head office in Montreal was Smith, and he was asked by the Governor-General to investigate and write a Royal Commission report. Smith travelled to (present-day) Manitoba , and negotiated at Fort Garry with Louis Riel , who had been voted
3680-478: The end of the resistance, Wolseley appointed Smith as the Acting Governor of Assiniboia pending Lieutenant Governor Adams George Archibald 's arrival in the province. Smith stayed in the region after 1870 and was responsible for negotiating the transfer of HBC land to the federal government (as well as coordinating the transfer of several specific land claims in the region). Archibald appointed Smith to his Executive Council on 20 October 1870, although this decision
3760-448: The first of the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System installed by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals . In 1928, Fort Smith Airport was built. The discovery of gold in Yellowknife in 1938 was a catalyst for an economic boost to Fort Smith, as many prospectors came passing through and bought supplies at the post. In the same year, an Anglican Mission house was built; a church was built in 1939. In 1942–1943, Fort Smith played
3840-417: The five-fold growth of Fort Smith's population in the decade following 1945. Government administrative facilities were increased to keep up with population needs and the village developed as a transportation hub for the Mackenzie District. Fort Smith was incorporated as a village in 1964; two years later, with a population of 2,130, the village became a town on October 1, 1966. The all-weather road to Hay River
3920-405: The government of Sir John A. Macdonald . Easily re-elected in 1872 , Smith was a strong defender of HBC interests in the House of Commons, and also spoke for issues concerning Manitoba and the Northwest. He helped create the Bank of Manitoba and the Manitoba Insurance Company during this period, assisted by banker Sir Hugh Allan . In 1872 Smith was appointed to the first group of members of
4000-404: The government of the Northwest Territories stopped advertising. 60°00′24″N 111°53′17″W / 60.00667°N 111.88806°W / 60.00667; -111.88806 This article about a Canadian newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fort Smith, Northwest Territories Fort Smith ( Chipewyan : Thebacha "beside the rapids") is a town in
4080-447: The great outstanding figures of the Empire. In 1853, he married Isabella Sophia Hardisty (1825–1913), daughter of Richard Hardisty (1790–1865), Chief Trader of the Hudson's Bay Company , and Margaret Sutherland (1802–1876), daughter of the Rev. John Sutherland, a native of Caithness who lived at Lachine, Quebec . Lady Strathcona's father was a native of London , England , and her mother was of Indian and Scottish parentage. Her brother
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#17328517242854160-440: The head of the rapids at Smith's Landing beginning in 1882. In 1898, the Yukon Gold Rush brought many gold seekers over the portages and through Fort Smith. In 1908, a new HBC steamer paddlewheeler, SS Mackenzie River , was launched to operate on the Slave and Mackenzie rivers below Fort Smith (see boats of the Mackenzie River watershed ). In 1911, government was established in Fort Smith when Ottawa sent an Indian agent and
4240-417: The home of the Northern Life Museum and the museum ship Radium King . Wood Buffalo National Park can also be accessed from Fort Smith. Every year the South Slave Friendship Festival, a music and arts festival, occurs in Fort Smith, usually in August. Musicians and artists from across the Northwest Territories and many other faraway places come to interact with other artists and show off their talents to
4320-405: The island of Montreal) is named in his honour. Strathcona is commemorated in Manitoba by the Rural Municipality of Strathcona and by three streets in Winnipeg: Donald Street and Smith Street in the downtown core, and Strathcona Street in the city's West End . In Alberta he is commemorated by the Calgary neighbourhood of Strathcona Park by the Edmonton neighbourhood of Strathcona , and by
4400-454: The leader of the resistance. Smith's offers, including land recognition for the Métis , led to Riel calling a Council of 40 representatives, drawn half-and-half from the Metis and the HBC settlers, for formal negotiations. Smith returned to Ottawa in early 1870, and communicated the Royal Commission on the North-West Territories , which effectively made his name in Canada and London. Smith succeeded in gaining clemency for some prisoners within
4480-427: The main entrance of Marischal College in Aberdeen. Strathcona Park , which was erected by the city of Ottawa in 1907, is dedicated to him. The Town of Transcona , Manitoba, incorporated in 1912 as a community to support the new railway shops of the Grand Trunk Pacific and National Transcontinental railways, takes half its name from Lord Strathcona, and the other half from the word transcontinental . Strathcona
4560-399: The mandatory six months notice that they would be separating from the organization. The Fort Smith Métis Council is the local representation for members of the Northwest Territory Métis Nation. In 1996, a framework agreement was signed with the government of the Northwest Territories and the government of Canada to commence negotiations on land, resources and self-government. Fort Smith is
4640-450: The municipality of Strathcona County . In British Columbia, the Vancouver neighbourhood of Strathcona takes its name from Lord Strathcona School built in 1891, and Mount Sir Donald in Glacier National Park is named after him. There are oil portraits of Lord Strathcona by many artists, but the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury seems to have made a number of head and shoulder portraits of him from 1898 (examples may be found at
4720-408: The newspaper profitable. Most businesses had also moved their advertising to Facebook. The newspaper had also lost advertising from oil companies because of coverage of health concerns towards the oilsands shared by people living in Fort McKay and Fort Chipewyan. The collapsing oil prices of the 2010s oil glut forced most remaining businesses to withdraw advertising. The biggest shortfall came when
4800-416: The parents of one child, the Hon. Margaret Charlotte Smith. In accordance with the special remainder to the 1900 barony, she succeeded her father as Lady Strathcona in 1914. In 1888, she married Robert Jared Bliss Howard OBE FRCS (1859–1921), son of Robert Palmer Howard (1823–1889), Dean of Medicine at McGill University. Robert Howard and Lady Strathcona had the following children: His Montreal home
4880-405: The public. Many tourists come to see the world-class Slave River and many kayakers try its rapids. Fort Smith Mission Park is a popular tourist attraction featuring historic buildings and a grotto from the Oblate Catholic Mission. In the summer months, pelicans can be seen nesting on the various rapids near Fort Smith. Whooping cranes , an endangered species, also nest in the area during
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#17328517242854960-488: The rapids to the other. With the discovery of oil at Norman Wells in 1920, a federal government administration building was constructed to house the new Northwest Territories branch and the first court of justice in the Mackenzie District . The Union Bank of Canada , making use of a tent, opened the first bank in the Northwest Territories in Fort Smith in June 1921. In 1920 the Lamson & Hubbard Trading Company launched Distributor to service its trading posts along
5040-410: The region; he was not, however, able to prevent the execution of Thomas Scott by Riel's provisional government. He was appointed that year to the office of President of the HBC's Council of the Northern Department (effectively becoming administrator of the Northwest Territories , including Manitoba). Smith accompanied Col. Garnet Wolseley 's military mission to Red River later in the year; following
5120-447: The summer and can be viewed via air charters as ground access is prohibited. There are a number of educational facilities in Fort Smith including Joseph Burr Tyrrell Elementary School , Paul William Kaeser High School and the Thebacha Campus of Aurora College. Additionally, the main office of the South Slave Divisional Education Council is located in the town. Fort Smith is the birthplace of Mark Carney , former governor of both
5200-415: The territorial capital. The park headquarters for Wood Buffalo National Park is located in Fort Smith. The headquarters and Thebacha Campus of Aurora College is located in Fort Smith; it is the largest of the three campus locations in the Northwest Territories. Fort Smith is located in the South Slave Region (administrative) and Region 5, Northwest Territories ( census division ). The town was previously in
5280-400: The time, suggested that Smith had encouraged Bannatyne's candidacy to prevent more serious opposition from emerging. In 1873, the HBC separated its fur trade and land sales operations, putting Smith in charge of the latter. Smith had developed an interest in railway expansion through his work with the HBC, and in 1875 was among the incorporators of the Manitoba Western Railway . He was also
5360-400: The use of the Arctic College name for their tribal college. Today, Fort Smith's economy is based on the federal, territorial, and aboriginal governments, along with education and tourism. In 2008, interest began to develop to re-establish a portage route to supply the Fort McMurray oilsands operations by river. The town is approximately 300 km (190 mi) southeast of Yellowknife ,
5440-414: Was 39.9 °C (103.8 °F) on June 30, 2021. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −57.2 °C (−71.0 °F) on December 26, 1917. These are both the hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded in the Northwest Territories. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Fort Smith had a population of 2,248 living in 881 of its 1,009 total private dwellings,
5520-408: Was a riot among the Ontario soldiers stationed in Winnipeg following the announcement of Smith's victory. Politicians were allowed to serve in both the provincial and federal parliaments in this period of Manitoba history, and Smith was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the newly formed riding of Selkirk in early 1871. He sat as an Independent Conservative , and initially supported
5600-454: Was appointed to the board of the Bank of Montreal in 1872, became its vice-president in 1882, and was promoted to the Presidency in 1887. His leadership in real estate transactions caused Smith to become a financier, and he was thus involved in (or founded) over 80 trust structures, including the Royal Trust and Montreal Trust . He retained a significant interest in the Hudson's Bay Company throughout his life and became in 1889 Governor of
5680-445: Was buried at Highgate Cemetery . His imposing red granite vault is the first vault after entering the Eastern Cemetery. His seventy-five-year tenure with the Hudson's Bay Company remains a record. He lived in Montreal's Golden Square Mile . In 1895, he purchased an estate in Scotland , building and living at Glencoe House . In 1905, he purchased the Island of Colonsay including Colonsay House (where his descendants still live) and
5760-501: Was closed in the 1920s, the farm supplied all the church's missions in the western Arctic. Its workers maintained a herd of more than 140 cattle. Horse-drawn freight services were complemented by tractors in 1919, when the Alberta & Arctic Transportation Company, a subsidiary of Lamson & Hubbard Trading Company , commissioned two 75-horsepower (56 kW) tractors on the Slave River portage to haul commercial freight from one side of
5840-485: Was further made GCVO in 1908. He cooperated with Manitoba Liberal Clifford Sifton in opening the Canadian prairies to eastern-European immigration. He raised Strathcona's Horse , a private unit of Canadian soldiers, during the Second Boer War , and became one of the leading supporters of British imperialism within London. After the end of the war, he was appointed among the members of a Royal Commission set up to investigate
5920-544: Was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1973. At least three ships were named for Lord Strathcona during his lifetime. These were: A fourth ship, Lord Strathcona , was a 7,335-ton, 455-foot ocean steamer built in 1915 by W. Doxford & Sons Ltd. at Sunderland, England . Owned by the Dominion Line , Lord Strathcona was bound from Wabana, Newfoundland to Sydney, Nova Scotia with iron ore when
6000-543: Was located in the Golden Square Mile . In 1905, he bought the island of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides , which remains in the hands of his successors today. Lord Strathcona is commemorated in Montreal by several McGill University buildings; he gave freely of his time to this institution, and a great quantity of his wealth. In Westmount, a street was named in his honour. In the greater Montreal West Island community,
6080-411: Was officially completed in 1966, permanently linking Fort Smith to the south. The completion of a southern rail link to Hay River in 1964 meant that Fort Smith's role as the transportation hub was largely negated. Shipping operations on the Slave River ceased in 1968. When Yellowknife was designated as the territorial capital in 1967, Fort Smith was kept as the administrative centre of the government of
6160-607: Was re-elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1887 , in the Quebec riding of Montreal West , and once again sat as an "Independent Conservative". In the same year he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from St John's College, Cambridge . He was re-elected in the election of 1891 , defeating his only opponent, James Cochrane , 4586 votes to 880. Smith remained interested in Manitoba politics, and attempted (without success) to broker
6240-401: Was subsequently a leading figure in the creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway , although he was not appointed as a director of the organization until 1883 because of his lingering animosity with Sir John A. Macdonald (who had again become prime minister in 1878). During his tenure on the board, Smith had the honour of driving the last spike at Craigellachie, British Columbia to complete
6320-477: Was subsequently overturned by the Canadian government, which ruled that Archibald had overstepped his legal authority. In Manitoba's first general election , held on 27 December 1870, Smith was elected to the provincial legislature for the riding of Winnipeg and St. John , defeating long-time HBC nemesis John Christian Schultz by 71 votes to 63. Smith was a supporter of Archibald's consensus government, and opposed Schultz's ultra-loyalist Canadian Party ; there
6400-563: Was the Hon. Richard Charles Hardisty . She was presented to King Edward and Queen Alexandra, 13 March 1903, and with her daughter donated $ 100,000 to McGill University in Montreal to erect a new wing to its Medical Building. The couple lived at 53 Cadogan Square , London; Knebworth House ; Debden Hall ; Glencoe House , Scotland; Colonsay House , Scotland and 1157 Dorchester Street, in Montreal 's Golden Square Mile . Lord and Lady Strathcona were
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