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	Allan, Sir Hugh Andrew Montagu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Allan, Sir Hugh Andrew Montagu, banker, shipowner, sportsman (b at Montréal 13 Oct 1860; d there 26 Sept 1951), second son of Sir Hugh ALLAN.
		He was chairman of the ALLAN LINE of steamships, 1909-12, but his principal interest was in banking.
		Allan was an enthusiastic sportsman and president of the Montreal Jockey Club for many years, his horses winning the QUEEN'S PLATE, the Montreal Hunt Cup and other trophies.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000148 (244 words)

	Allan, Sir Hugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Allan immigrated to Montréal (1826) and obtained employment through relatives as a clerk in a general merchandising firm.
		Allan, with technologically advanced ships built in Clyde, Scot, and the help of Conservative political friends, was able to wrest the contract from competitors in 1856.
		Suspicions that Allan had bought the railway contract led to the PACIFIC SCANDAL and Sir John A. only period as federal Leader of the Opposition.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0000147 (368 words)

	100-101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Montreal Shipowner, would-be builder of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Hugh Allan was an enterprising nineteenth century financier who was born in 1810 at Saltcoats beside the entry to the Firth of Clyde where much of Scotland's Atlantic shipping and shipbuilding had concentrated.
		Former president of the Montreal Board of Trade (1851-1854), Sir Hugh Allan was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1871.
		Hence, Allan was knighted in 1871 in recognition of his services both to Canada and the British Empire.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume5/100-101.htm (650 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hugh Allan
		The Allan fleet is one of the most numerous and important on the globe, and is managed upon a strict system of organization and discipline by which regular promotion is secured to competent and deserving employes, and nothing left undone to secure thoroughness and efficiency in every detail.
		Lieut.-Col. Alexander Allan Stevenson, of Montreal, was born in the parish of Riccarton, Ayrshire, in January, 1829.
		Allan Macdonell was born in Toronto, about the year 1810, and was admitted to the bar in 1832, having studied law in the office of Mr.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hugh_Allan (632 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Allan responded in a “rough” and “overbearing” manner, seizing the baggage until the case was settled.
		Allan, never noted as a model employer, was more concerned with profit than with the welfare of his employees, and his cotton mills were the subject of complaints concerning wages, drinking water, child labour, and industrial accidents.
		Hugh did become a lifetime governor of the Montreal Protestant House of Industry and Refuge after making a $500 contribution in 1863, and he was a member of the first board of the Protestant Hospital for the Insane (1881).
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39458 (8560 words)

	SIR HUGH ALLAN - LoveToKnow Article on SIR HUGH ALLAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He emigrated to Canada in 1826, and in 1831 entered the employ of the chief shipbuilding and grain-shipping firm of Montreal, of which he became a junior partner in 1835.
		In 1853 he organized the Allan Line of steamships, plying between Montreal, Liverpool and Glasgow; till his death he was closely associated with the commercial growth and prosperity of Canada, and in 1871 was knighted in recognition of his services.
		In 1872-1873 he obtained from the Canadian government a charter for 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 scandal (see CANADA, History), and that company was soon afterwards dissolved.
	79.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AL/ALLAN_SIR_HUGH.htm (179 words)

	Andrew Allan
		Of Montreal, brother of the late Sir Hugh Allan, was born at Saltcoats, Ayreshire, Scotland, Dec. 1, 1822.
		Over thirty years ago the Allan Brothers, perceiving the great number of people who were constantly sailing from Great Britain and Ireland to America, conceived the idea of a line of ocean passenger boat, which would be the chief carrying medium for the great concourse of emigrants.
		Allan married, in 1846, a daughter of the late John Smith, of Montreal, and has eight children.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/allan_andrew.htm (431 words)

	The Scot in British North America - Chapter IX Addendaand Literature
		Allan returned to Canada in the spring of 1831, and obtained a situation with the firm of James Millar and Co., Montreal, shipbuilders and commission merchants.
		Allan in right royal sty1e at his mansion of Ravenscraig, in Montreal, and at Belmere his summer residence on the beautiful shores of lake Memphremagog.
		Sir Hugh was married on the 13th of September, 1844, to Matilda, second daughter of Mr.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/scot/chapter41.htm (9399 words)

	Pacific Scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two groups competed for the charter to build the railway, Hugh Allan's Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Inter-Ocean Railway Company.
		In 1873 it became known that Hugh Allan had contributed a large sum of money to the Conservative government's re-election campaign of 1872.
		The Liberal party, at this time the opposition party in parliament, accused the Conservatives of having made a tacit agreement to give the contract to Hugh Allan in exchange for money.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Scandal (359 words)

	allan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MONTREAL SHIPOWNER, would-be builder if the Canadian Pacific Railway, Hugh Allan was an enterprising nineteenth century who was born in 1810 at Saltcoats beside the entry to the Firth of Clyde where much of Scotland's Atlantic shipping and shipbuilding had concentrated.
		Former president of the Montreal Board of Trade (1851- 1854), Sir Hugh Allan was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1871.
		The Allan line also bought or built non-propeller steamers (faster and safer then the old paddle wheelers) and continued to improve ship technology, even introducing in 1879 the first all-steel steamship launched on the Atlantic.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume5/allan.htm (620 words)

	Allan Line
		Alexander Allan had founded the Allan Line of Sailing Ships in 1819, with regular sailings between Greenock and Quebec in the brigantine Jean, commencing June 9th 1819.
		Sandy Allan died March 18th 1854, before the first Montreal Steamship Company steamship Canadian, sailed from Liverpool September 16th 1854, and arrived at Quebec September 28th 1854, on her Maiden voyage.
		Considered to be the fastest of the Allan Line clippers, sold to Andrew Weir.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/allan.html (2235 words)

	Cacouna.Qc - Sir Hugh Andrew Montagu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Allan, Sir Hugh Andrew Montagu, banker, ship owner, sportsman (b at Montreal 13 Oct 1860; d there 26 Sept 1951), second son of Sir Hugh ALLAN.
		ALLAN LINE of steamships, 1909-12, but his principal interest was in banking.
		ALLAN CUP, for competition in amateur hockey, in 1910.
	cacouna.net /montaguAllen_e.htm (279 words)

	Sir Hugh Allan
		ALLAN, Sir Hugh, ship-owner, born in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland, 29 September 1810 ; died in Edinburgh, 8 December 1882.
		Sir Hugh was a director of the Montreal telegraph company, the Montreal warehousing company, the merchants' bank of Canada, the Mulgrave gold mining company, and for a short time of the Pacific railway.
		His name gained a place in the political history of Canada through his alleged questionable connection with the "Pacific Scandal." He was knighted in 1871, as Sir Hugh Allan of Ravenscraig, in recognition of his hospitality to the prince of Wales, and his services to Canadian and British commerce.
	www.famousamericans.net /sirhughallan (481 words)

	Cabin Logs - 1991
		Allan and Hugh built the soffit in the drizzle.
		Allan is going to build a new biffy and will put it over the existing hole.
		Allan Boyartchuk is back to work and hasn’t got time for the project.
	www.ejor.com /logbook/log91.html (3309 words)

	Hugh Allan Creek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The surveyor Hugh Drummond Allan (1887–1917) was born in Scotland and came to Canada around 1907.
		Captain Allan was shortly predeceased by his wife and infant child.
		Allan, Hugh D. “Canoe River Valley.” Report of the Minister of Lands (1914).
	www.spiralroad.com /sr/pn/h/hugh_allan_creek.html (181 words)

	The Allan Line - Passenger lists and Emigrant ships from Norway-Heritage
		Richard Solem was the head agent for the Allan Line in the North of Dovre regions of Norway (and Jemtland in Sweden) from August 1893 till the line was absorbed by CPR in 1917.
		The Allan Line was one of the first transatlantic steamship companies to establish a network of agents in Norway.
		The Allan Line ships from then of were integrated with the Canadian Pacific Line.
	www.norwayheritage.com /p_shiplist.asp?co=allan (500 words)

	Cosmik Debris Magazine Presents: The 21st Century Be-Bop Of Soft Works; an interview of Hugh Hopper - May 2003
		The four are Elton Dean, Allan Holdsworth, Hugh Hopper and John Marshall, jazz masters all.
		We were able to catch up with Hugh at his home in England, where his contribution to Soft Works is making sure the grand tradition of English jazz continues to flower.
		Then Allan took the tapes to his place in LA and worked on the guitar parts and mixing.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-may03/soft_works.html (1783 words)

	Hugh Ferguson Fusion Jazz Guitar
		Hugh has been playing jazz fusion since the mid 70s.
		Hugh also gained notoriety when his band MR Wizard opened for such acts as Allan Holdsworth and Til' Tuesday.
		Jazz Fusion has always been Hugh's passion, so in 2000 Hugh got back to work writing the music he really loves and recorded his first fusion CD "The Jungle".
	www.hughferguson.net (375 words)

	Allan Memorial Institute "Ravenscrag"
		In 1863, Sir Hugh Allan, the Scottish founder and president of the Allan Lines Shipping Company, commissioned Victor Roy and John Hopkins to construct a house that reflected his wealth and power.
		Since the Allans were interested in horses, the fourteen acre estate possessed one of the finest stables on the Square Mile, the entrance of which was marked by a sculpted horse's head.
		It was renamed the Allan Memorial Institute in 1943.
	blackader.library.mcgill.ca /campus/buildings/Allan_Memorial_Institute.html (264 words)

	Moonjune Global Media - Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With Ayers unavailable, Hugh Hopper was asked to join (he was about to sell his bass!), and after a month of rehearsal, the new line-up made its live debut at the Royal Albert Hall in February, a few days before entering Olympic Studios to record the second album.
		Hugh Hopper's angular "Facelift" was a collage of live performances made in January, and is the only track featuring Lyn Dobson, who had left by the time the studio sessions for the other four sides had begun.
		In May 1973, Hugh Hopper decided that four years in Soft Machine was enough and that it was time to move on to pastures new.
	moonjunerecords.com /liveinzaandam.html (2159 words)

	Civilization.ca - Advertising for immigrants to western Canada - Immigrants' possessions - The early years, 1870-1897 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister, relied heavily on Sir Hugh Allan of the Allan Steamship Line to advertise western Canada in Britain and Europe.
		In the 1870s and 1880s, the Allan Line of Steamers spent more money on advertising for immigrants to Canada than did the new federal government, it was said.
		Sir Hugh Allan, of the Allan Line, was encouraged by Prime Minister Macdonald to organize a consortium to build a Canadian Pacific Railway.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/advertis/ads2-01e.html (264 words)

	CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top Ten Greatest Canadians - Sir John A. Macdonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hugh wanted a new start - he decided to move his family to Kingston (Upper Canada) in 1820.
		Macdonald was educated in the area's finest schools, and he established his own law practice in Kingston at the age of 19.
		What he didn't know was that his French right-hand man, Cartier, had promised Allan a majority of stock in the railroad in return for $350,000 in election funding.
	www.cbc.ca /greatest/top_ten/nominee/macdonald-john.html (1617 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		In retrospect, many historians have called the reign of Alexander III a golden age for Scotland, for it was one of peace and prosperity, in great contrast to the usual state of affairs in that troubled kingdom.
		Unfortunately, Allan's transcontinental charter for the Canadian Pacific Railroad, granted by the government in 1872, was revoked when it was revealed that Allan had subsidized Sir John MacDonald's Conservative Party election campaign.
		The disgrace, however, does not diminish Allan's influence on trans-Atlantic shipping during the latter part of the century, the development of Canadian seaports, and the bringing to Canadian shores the huge influx of immigrants (mainly Scottish and Irish) during those years.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/a1.html (1804 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pacific Scandal began when Sir Allan Hugh contributed large amounts of money to John A. MacDonald's campaign fund in 1872.
		In return for Hugh's contributions, the government granted Allan the contract to the head the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		John A. MacDonald tried to end Allan's ties with the Americans who were supplying the money, Allan and the American businessmen were angered.
	www.geocities.com /canadian_pacific_railway/4scandal.htm (163 words)

	Overview of Sir Hugh Allan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in Saltcoats (North Ayrshire), the son of captain and ship-owner Alexander Allan (1780 - 1854).
		He emigrated to Canada at the age of 16 where he founded the Allan Line of steam-ships (also known as the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company) in 1854.
		Allan died in Edinburgh and his name is remembered in the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry in McGill University (Montreal).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst676.html (144 words)

	Hugh Allan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Hugh Allan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sir Hugh Allan (September 29,1810 – December 9, 1882) was a Scottish-born Canadian financier and shipowner.
		Hugh Allan, External links, 1810 births, 1882 deaths, Scottish business people, Early Canadian business leaders, Shipping magnates, Scottish-Canadians and Montrealers.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Hugh_Allan (160 words)

	Objectionable Content
		The concept is embodied in a single picture, one that must be worth more than a thousand words (as you'll see from how many I have to use to explain it).
		Allan's blog is Rough Days for a Gentil Knight and I hadn't read it before the party
		Once he found Capital Influx, Hugh could read the announcement of Gawker's creation on December 6th.
	jim.blogspot.com /2003_04_01_jim_archive.html (1420 words)

	Rev. Hugh Allan
		From the evidence of Miss Isabel Allan it appeared that deceased went to bed on Saturday, 25th March, as well as he usually was, having been ailing of late, but about midnight he was taken ill and she and her mother waited on him at intervals.
		About five o'clock the symptoms became serious and medical aid was sent for, but before aid arrived he had expired.
		Allan had been intimately connected with the charities of the town, in which he took a prominent part, till age to some extent, prevented him.
	tetlow.screaming.net /rev._hugh_allan.htm (498 words)

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