Ravenscrag, Montreal
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Ravenscrag is a historic mansion located in the Golden Square Mile in Montreal, Canada.
Ravenscrag from Pine Avenue, 1901
McTavish House (circa 1850)
Terrace Bank (1861), John Redpath residence
Braehead (1861), Orrin Squire Wood's residence
Hugh Allan
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Sir Hugh Allan was a Scottish-Canadian shipping magnate, financier and capitalist. By the time of his death, the Allan Shipping Line had become the largest privately owned shipping empire in the world
Ravenscrag, Montreal
…historic mansion located in the Golden Square Mile in Montreal (Quebec), Canada. Built mainly between 1861 and 1863, this house was the residence of Sir Hugh Allan from 1863 to 1882 and to his son Sir Hugh Montagu Allan from 1882 to 1940. In 1940, the Allan family donated the house to the Royal Victoria Hospital…
Allan in 1879.
The offices of H & A Allan by the Montreal harbour (built in 1863)
The Canadian, 1855; along with the Indian, these superior ships helped Allan to secure the Royal Mail contract in 1856
Sir Hugh Allan in 1869. Taken by William Notman in his studio in Montreal.