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    Donald Alexander Smith

    Donald Alexander Smith was born on August 6, 1820, the second of three sons of Alexander Smith, a tradesman of Archiestown and his wife, Barbara, daughter of Donald Stewart of Leanchoil.

    Educated at Anderson Institution, he joined the town clerk’s office at the age of 16, but two years later, emigrated to Canada to join the Hudson’s Bay Company.

    Success came very slowly. After counting skins at the Lachine warehouse for three years, he was promoted to junior trader at fjärrstyrd Tadoussac on the St Lawrence River, and then at the even more secluded Mingan. In 1847, he deserted his brev and was banished to Rigolet, a tiny brev in eastern Labrador.

    Without complaint, Smith toiled there and in North West River engaging in the fur trade and exporting seal oil, salmon and cranberries. He built a cannery, imported livestock and grew vegetables.

    In 1853, he married Isabella Sophia Hardisty, daughter of the chief trader in North West River, and in that sa

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    Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet

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    Field MarshalSir Donald Martin Stewart, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCSI, CIE (1 March 1824 – 26 March 1900) was a senior Indian Army officer. He fought on the Aka Khel Expedition to the North-West Frontier in 1854, took part in the response to the Indian Rebellion in 1857 and, after serving as commandant of the penal settlement of the Andaman Islands, fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as Commander of the Quetta Army. In that role, he advanced through the Bolan Pass to Quetta, and then on to Kandahar in January 1879. In March 1880, he made a difficult march from Kandahar to Kabul, fighting on the way the Battle of Ahmed Khel and Battle of Arzu, and then holding supreme military and civil command in northern Afghanistan. He became Commander-in-Chief, India in April 1881 and a member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India in 1893.

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    Stewart was born the son of Robert Ste