Strathcona’s complex impact

Kudos to writer Joe Martin for his reference to Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona, in the April-May 2020 edition of Canada’s History (“The World’s Oldest Multinational”). Strathcona had a complex impact on Canada’s growth. In the early 1900s, Montrealbased tobacco company Forest Limited made the name Strathcona the byword for value for cigar smokers. David Raymont via email