GUSTAVE SMITH (1826-1896) was a painter, writer, draftsman, composer, organist and teacher, numbering among his pupils, Emma Lajeunesse, later to become known as Emma Albani, Canada's opera diva, the toast of Covent Garden, London. Later in life he settled in Ottawa as a cartographer and draftsman for various departments of the government and was organist of Notre-Dame Basilica.