Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On the north side of Dorchester Street, in the heart of Montreal's Golden Square Mile, there once stood a fortress of grey limestone that many considered the most handsome house in the entire city. It belonged to Donald Smith, the man King Edward VII fondly called Uncle Donald, who rose from a modest childhood on the windswept coast of Scotland to become Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, the largest shareholder in the Hudson's Bay Company, and one of the towering figures behind the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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On the north side of Dorchester Street, in the heart of Montreal's Golden Square Mile, there once stood a fortress of grey limestone that many considered the most handsome house in the entire city. It belonged to Donald Smith, the man King Edward VII fondly called Uncle Donald, who rose from a modest childhood on the windswept coast of Scotland to become Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, the largest shareholder in the Hudson's Bay Company, and one of the towering figures behind the Canadian Pacific Railway.
How we make our videos:
Camera: Sony a6400
Microphone: Shure SM7B
Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
XLR Cable: Mogami Gold XLR Cable
Green Screen: Neewer Green Screen
Teleprompter: Neewer Teleprompter
Production Credits:
Scripts: Ken Weiss
Storyboard: Ken Weiss
Video Editor: Dalton Sturm
Location: Montreal, Canada
Public Domain Photos from: Library of Congress
Assets from: Envato Elements
Music from Epidemic Sound
