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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.

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.

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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