James Smart

James Smart (February 29, 1888 and Fundy National Park. During his tenure, campgrounds were expanded in the parks located in the Canadian national parks in the Rocky Mountains, skiing facilities were improved in Banff National Park, Jasper National Park and Mount Revelstoke National Park and golf courses were developed in three national parks in Atlantic Canada. Also, construction began on the Trans-Canada Highway through Banff National Park.

In 1946, Smart was made an Additional Officer of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire.

In 1956, he was named an executive commissioner of the St. Lawrence Development Commission, responsible for parks and recreation development in the St. Lawrence area of Ontario. Smart also was responsible for researching and planning the relocation of gravestones and remains from cemeteries in Ontario that would be flooded by the creation of the Saint Lawrence Seaway.