Dory Smith is a Black retired member from St. Catherine, Jamaica. He joined the Carpenters' Union in the 1970s. The first full time Black Business Representative in the history of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America in Canada. Vice President / Business Representative of Local 27 in the 1980s. Dory was an active CBTU member and he ran for the vice president of the Canadian Federation of Labour. 

He was Chair of the special events committee of local 27, Vice President of the Carpenters' District Council of Toronto & vicinity, member of the board of Trustees for local 27 Benefits & Pension Plan and National Apprenticeship Advisory Committee of Canada.