John Wilson McConnell
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John Wilson McConnell was a Canadian sugar refiner, newspaper publisher, humanitarian and philanthropist in Quebec, Canada.
McConnell in 1910
The J.W. McConnell mansion at 1475 Pine Avenue West in Montreal
Golden Square Mile
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The Golden Square Mile, also known as the Square Mile, is the nostalgic name given to an urban neighbourhood developed principally between 1850 and 1930 at the foot of Mount Royal, in the west-central
John Wilson McConnell
…He was interred in the family plot at Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. McConnell's grand Italianate residence at 1475 Pine Avenue West in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, known as J.W. McConnell House, was subsequently donated to the Benedictines around 1975. Under Dom John Main, the mansion became the Benedictine Priory…
Ravenscrag, built for Sir Hugh Allan in 1863
Herbert Molson House, designed by architect Robert Findlay in 1912
Surrender of Montreal to the British, 1760
The Montreal townhouse of David Ross on the Champ de Mars, circa 1812