owner and president, taking as partners John Dillon, Thomas Bingham Hall, Donald William Ross, and William Ross. For several years he had lobbied the government to encourage domestic milling by dropping

returned to spend his final years in Ottawa, a city that was also the home of one of his daughters, the wife of Donald Alexander

. Macdonald*, who wanted a dependable Tory organ in Toronto to combat Brown’s Globe. The Conservative party had begun providing support to the Telegraph in 1869 at the behest of Cook and

. Macdonald*, and enjoyed cordial business relations with George Stephen*, who would become the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway

SMITH, DONALD ALEXANDER, 1st Baron STRATHCONA and MOUNT ROYAL, HBC officer, businessman, politician, diplomat, and philanthropist

. Macdonald*], while opposing efforts to alter the form of the local legislatures and insisting that the provinces should have the sole right to levy duties on their natural resources. He was also concerned

 John A. Macdonald*] was largely restricted to expressions of courage

Riel*’s provisional government with a stable authority acceptable in central Canada. Wolseley immediately tried to find some involvement. When he learned that Donald Alexander