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unusual facts about Sir Hugh Allan



Lady Meredith House

The shipowner and financier, Andrew Allan, purchased one these plots just south of the fourteen acre plot purchased by his brother, Sir Hugh Allan, on which Ravenscrag was completed in 1863.

Ravenscrag, another historic mansion in Montreal built 1860–63 for Lady Meredith's uncle, Sir Hugh Allan

Montreal Hunt

Under the dynamic leadership of Captain Edmund Campbell of Manoir Rouville-Campbell (son of Thomas Edmund Campbell and son-in-law of Sir Hugh Allan), Ross Hutchins and especially Baron Alfred Baumgarten, new foxhounds were imported from Ireland and British rules for fox hunting were imposed.


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