Leanchoil Hospital was built with funds donated from Lord Strathcona in 1892 to serve the population of his native Forres and the surrounding area.
On May 29, 1899, Strathcona was incorporated as a town named after Lord Strathcona, Donald A. Smith.
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She was the first winner of the Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Enrique Fernandez Arbos.
There are oil portraits of Lord Strathcona by many artists, but the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury seems to have made a number of head and shoulder portraits of him from 1898 (examples may be found at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad offices, and in the Hudson's Bay Company this has a repainted background), and the artist also presented his 1899 bust-length charcoal and crayon drawing of Strathcona to McGill University in Montreal in 1916.
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In 1853, he married Isabella Sophia Hardisty (1825-1913), daughter of Richard Hardisty (1790-1865), Chief Trader of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Margaret Sutherland (1802-1876), daughter of the Rev. John Sutherland, a native of Caithness who lived at Lachine, Quebec.
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Lord Strathcona is commemorated in Manitoba by the Rural Municipality of Strathcona and by three streets in Winnipeg: Donald Street and Smith Street in the downtown core, and Strathcona Street in the city's West End.
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He also bequeathed funds to the Sheffield Scientific School for a science and engineering building and to support two professorships in engineering.
Henderson Highway was named for early Manitoba pioneer Samuel Robert Henderson, Disraeli Freeway was named for Benjamin Disraeli, and Princess Street was named for Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, while King Street was named for John Mark King, a local clergyman, and Donald Street and Smith Street for the 1st Lord Strathcona.