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SIR HUGH ALLAN (1810–1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 687 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGH ALLAN (1810–1882)
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Canadian financier, was born on the 29th of September 1810, at Saltcoats,
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Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Captain Alexander Allan, a shipmaster . He emigrated to
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Canada in 1826, and in 1831 entered the employ of the chief
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shipbuilding and grain-
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shipping
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firm of
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Montreal, of which he became a junior partner in 1835 . In 1853 he organized the Allan
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Line of steamships, plying between Montreal, Liverpool and
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Glasgow; till his
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death he was closely associated with the commercial growth and prosperity of Canada, and in 1871 was knighted in recognition of his services . In 1872–1893 he obtained from the Canadian government a charter for
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building the Canadian Pacific railway, but the disclosures made with reference to his contributions to the funds of the Conservative party led to the Pacific
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scandal (see CANADA,
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History), and that
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company was soon afterwards dissolved . He died in
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Edinburgh on the 9th of December 1882 . See J . C . Dent, Canadian Portrait Gallery (1881) .

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