The Hardistys are a Canadian family of commerce and politics of English, Scottish and indigenous North American heritage.

Marguerite) Sutherland in a civil ceremony, rather than à la façon du pays (in the local tradition), as Margret parents' had.

After a long career moving between fur trade posts Richard and Margret retired to Lachine, near Montreal.

Richard and Margret's first son, born circa 1822 probably at Waswanipi House, was named William Lucas.

This later troubled Smith, as he rose to become Canada’s richest man, now Lord Strathcona, as part-owner of the H.B.C., the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Bank of Montreal.

After catching scarlet fever in the Red River Settlement at age six, went to live with her grandparents at Lachine and then attended the Wesleyan Female College in Hamilton, Ont.

There, Belle Hardisty became integrated into the emerging WASP elite and married James A. Lougheed, the future senator and knight, in 1884 in Calgary.