Article content Doug Smith, the founder of Manitoulin Transport and an Order of Canada recipient, died Aug. 2 on Manitoulin Island with his family at his side. Try refreshing your browser, or Doug Smith founded Manitoulin Transport, received the Order of Canada Back to video We apologize, but this video has failed to load. “We lost a very special man today in Doug Smith,” Gore Bay Mayor Ron Lane said in a Facebook post. “He was a very successful businessman and a lifelong resident of Gore Bay who never forgot his Gore Bay roots. Doug Smith was predeceased by his parents Bill and Reta Smith, his sister Josephine (Andy) Griffith, and his infant granddaughter Elizabeth Smith.