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The Prince of Wales (shown here in India), was presented with an honorary LLD on October 31, 1919. The ceremony took place at Royal Victoria College, and although it was over in 15 minutes, the introduction may be the longest on record: "To His Royal Highness Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Barron of Renfrew, in the Peerage of Scotland, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, KG, GCMG, MC, etc."
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GLIMPSES OF
OUR BENEFACTORS
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SIR WILLIAM MACDONALD
There was a fine style about Sir William. On small, finely arched feet, so characteristic of a high-bred Highlander, he wore the shiniest of boots, and it was a sight to see him skip, with antelope dexterity, across the March mud of Sherbrooke Street (macadamized and rutted in those days) and arrive with unspecked footgear on the far pavement. He could spend hours on a building under construction, from wallhead to basement, without bumping his tall grey felt hat or rubbing plaster on an elbow.
from "Some Reminiscences," by Percy E. Nobbs, June 1923
(Nobbs, a Montreal architect, designed a number of McGill buildings and taught in the School of Architecture)
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DONALD A. SMITH, LORD STRATHCONA
There is the sketch of Donald A. Smith at 18 years of age arriving in Montreal, finding the primitive, ill lighted city not much to his liking, and so walking out to Lachine to present a letter of introduction to an officer of the Hudson's Bay Company. The letter declared that its bearer was "of good character, studious, painstaking and enterprising." The introduction was successful. "The fate of Donald Alexander Smith was settled for all time. He was to begin work at once, with a salary of twenty pounds a year. A clerk was called in and ordered to take Mr. Smith to the fur room and instruct him in the art of counting rat skins."
from "Fundator Noster," by S.E. Vaughan, June 1929.
(Quotes are from John Macnaughton's biography of Lord Strathcona published in the Makers of Canada Series)
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