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5 unusual facts about Hugh Allan


Canada Car Company

Canada Car Company was incorporated January 1905 with W.P. Coleman as president and Sir Hugh Allan as vice-president.

Hugh Allan

Lady Allan's two remaining sisters married respectively Hartland St. Clair MacDougall (brother of George Campbell MacDougall) and James St. George Bellhouse, of the firm Bellhouse & Dillon.

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He married Eva Belford Travers, daughter of John N. Travers and a niece of General James Travers V.C. The couple lived quietly with ther son at 112 King Street in Brockville, Ontario, where he managed the Bank of Montreal office.

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At the same time that Allan was falling out with the Grand Trunk Railway, the Canadian government had committed to building a railway across to British Columbia.

Telecommunications in Canada

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.



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