Hugh Allan
Sir Hugh Allan (1810-1882) was a Scottish born
Canadian financier and shipowner. In
1826, he emigrated to
Canada and worked for a shipbuilding company in
Montreal,
Lower Canada, where he later founded the Allan line of steamships. He was given the contract to build the
Canadian Pacific Railway, but plans fell through in
1873 after the
Pacific scandal.
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