Home > People > History > Canadian History: Biographies

Topic:Sir Hugh Allan

Visit our new topic page about Sir Hugh Allan

Sir Hugh Allan

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Sir Hugh Allan 1810-82, Canadian financier and shipowner, b. Scotland. He emigrated to Canada in 1826, was employed by a large shipbuilding company in Montreal, and later founded the Allan Line of steamships. He was given the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, but the Pacific scandal (1873) led to its cancellation.

Author not available, ALLAN, SIR HUGH., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	Canada and Canadian Pacific: building a prosperous future. Canadian Speeches; 3/1/1997; David P. O'Brien; 2900 words ; ... century-old subsidies for moving grain to export markets, but the bad news is that railway grain rates in Canada remain regulated, subject ... future here in Toronto and across Ontario, and that, too, is good news for Canadian Pacific, because it means more business for our ... Read more
	Canadian Pacific Employees Partner for Safety U.S. Newswire; 4/2/2008; 413 words ; To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Mike LoVecchio, Senior Manager, Media Relations of Canadian Pacific, +1-778-772-9636 CALGARY, Alberta, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP; TSX) has joined a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rail safety pilot project that Read more
	Canadian Pacific firmly on growth track: latest financials reveal strong earnings and cash flow. Money Digest; 9/1/2000; Patrick McKeough; 491 words ; Canadian Pacific (TSE: CP; Recent price: $39; Rating: As with many widely diversified companies, Canadian Pacific stock suffers from a `holding company discount.' Investors focus on its total earnings and put little value on low-profit or money-losing operations, even if those operations have Read more
	Norfolk Southern Railway, Canadian Pacific file for trackage rights deal. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/2/2004; 432 words ; ... Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 2--NORFOLK, Va. -- Norfolk Southern Railway and Canadian ... Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at ... Read more
	Books for improvement: the Canadian Pacific Foundation Library (1). Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 3/22/2005; Stevenson, Iain; 4020 words ; ... Storied Coasts of the Mediterranean, Around the World Cruise, and The World is Round (6)). Publications were distributed by the CPR News Department that operated bookstalls at all major stations and made books available on trains, ships, aircraft, and in CPR hotels ... Read more
	Canadian Pacific Railway to cease operations at Buffalo, N.Y., rail yard. Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); 7/2/2004; 579 words ; ... Clinton-Bailey neighborhood. To see more of The Buffalo News, N.Y., or to subscribe to the newspaper, go ... www.buffalonews.com. (c) 2004, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content ... Read more
	Canadian Pacific Railway. (Canada). International Railway Journal; 8/1/2001; 53 words ; Canadian Pacific, the owner of Canadian Pacific Railway, will consider plans to break up the company into five separate entities at a shareholders' meeting next month. If the proposal is approved, Canadian Pacific Railway will become one of the new independent companies. The others will cover the Read more
	Canadian Pacific Railroad Opens Freight Transfer Yard in Philadelphia. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/29/1999; Holcomb, Henry J.; 254 words ; Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 29 -- Canadian Pacific Railway, one of three major railroads serving Philadelphia and its seaport ... term, Cote said. (c) 1999, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. Read more
	Canadian Pacific to Increase Traffic on Pennsylvania Rail Lines. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/21/1998; Malina, Brian; 942 words ; Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 20--The rarely used regional train tracks of Canadian Pacific ... county is the rail service has not been maintained. I think it's great news. It'll be good for the community if it's done, Hines says. Hines doesn ... Read more
	News: Canadian Pacific puts E2.3bn out to tender.(Brief Article) Financial Times Mandate; 9/23/2002; 366 words ; Canada's second biggest railway operator, Canadian Pacific Railway, is to tender its entire C$3.4bn (E2.3bn) North American bonds and equities portfolio to external fund managers. The C$5.3bn (E3.4bn) fund is also considering tendering its C$600m mortgages and real estate fund. The company's Read more

See all related premium articles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

	Pacific scandal The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... Charges were made in Parliament that the Conservative administration of Sir John A. Macdonald had accepted campaign funds from Sir Hugh Allan in return for a promise to award Allan's syndicate the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Macdonald ... Read more
	É Encyclopedia of World Biography Sir George- É tienne Cartier Sir George- É tienne Cartier (1814-1873) was a Canadian statesman who led French Canada into the federation of British ... In the election of 1872 Cartier was imprudent in soliciting large campaign contributions for the Conservatives from Sir Hugh Allan, ... Read more
	United Kingdom Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations ... 1909); and Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 89). Edward FitzGerald (1809 – 83) is famous for his free translations of Omar Khayyam's Rub á iy á t. Matthew Arnold (1822 – 88) was a noted poet ... – 1964); US-born Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965), winner of the Nobel Prize in ... Read more
	1783-1815: The Arts: Chronology American Eras ... Washington Irving is born in New York City. 1784 Literature Jeremy Belknap, The History of New-Hampshire. Volume I; Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Narratives of a Late Expedition Against the Indians; Samuel Low, Winter Display ’ ... 1792 Literature Jeremy Belknap, The Foresters, An American Tale and The History of ... Read more
	Canada Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations ... Alexander Macdonald (1815 – 91), first prime minister of the confederation; George Brown (1818 – 80), Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (1818 – 96), and Sir Charles Tupper (1821 – 1915). The greatest political leader at the turn of the century was Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1841 – ... Read more