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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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    Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles

    Lord of the Isles and chief of the Scottish Clan Donald

    Not to be confused with Domhnall of Islay.

    Donald, Lord of the Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Dómhnall; died 1423), was the son and successor of John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and chief of Clan Donald. The Lordship of the Isles was based in and around the Scottish west-coast island of Islay, but under Donald's father had come to include most of the isles and the lands of Somerled, the King of the Isles in the 12th century, Donald's predecessor, including Morvern, Garmoran, Lochaber, Kintyre and Knapdale on the mainland.

    Donald was the grandson of King Robert II of Scotland and first cousin of King Robert III; he took pride in his royal blood, even adopting the royal tressure to surround his coat of arms.

    While it is customary to portray the Lords of the Isles as divorced from the mainstream of Scottish political life, and as representatives of a brand of lordship distinct from the rest