Smith, Isabella Sophia Hardisty, Lady Strathcona

Nation(ality): Cree mixed Ancestry
Community: Mistassini or Rupert River PQ
Occupation(s): political wife

gender: woman
residences: Labrador | Quebec | Manitoba | London | Scotland
married: Isabella Sophia Smith
titled: Lady Strathcona

Timeline


Birth: 1825

Source(s):

Conflicting Loyalties: The Hardisty Family Legacy, Lougheed House. Digital Museums Canada. https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/conflicting-loyalties_allegeances-contradictoires/story/kinship-networks/



Death: November 12, 1913

Source(s):

DCB entry for Donald Alexander Smith, Dictionary of Canadian Biography. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/smith_donald_alexander_14E.html


Description

See also https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/conflicting-loyalties_allegeances-contradictoires/story/fur-trade/

Context

Born to Richard Hardisty and Margaret or Marguerite Sutherland daughter of a Cree woman Ann Noble and Scottish HBC trader John therland; married first John Grant, then Donald Smith (later Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal). Aunt to Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed