Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal immortalised as the "Cheeryble Brothers" in Charles Dickens' book, Nicholas Nickleby. Donald's mother was the sister of the Canadian explorer John Stuart, partner of the North West Company who rose to become Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Smith was educated at Anderson's Free School and on leaving at age sixteen he was apprenticed to become a lawyer in the offices of Robert Watson, Town Clerk of Forres. By the age of eighteen, Smith chose another career path: offered entry into mercantile life at Manchester, and a career in the Indian Civil Service, his choice was to pattern himself
Dickens in America amateur theatrics. Of course, Dickens took over the production. Miriam also becomes involved with a show put on by the Concordia University Theatre Department. They do a production of the Victorian farce, "Deaf as a Post". Miriam plays the landlady. Part Ten - Back to New York Dickens had five days in New York before his ship sailed and he used it to see more of the state. He went up the Hudson River to West Point. Miriam goes up to the beautiful campus and meets the cadets. Perhaps the major difference is that now there are also female cadets.