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From 1886 to 1907 Dawes was on the board of directors of another national institution, the Merchants’ Bank of Canada, owned largely by the Allan family [see Andrew
Allan, Andrew Frederick Gault, and Alexander Walker
, after Sir Hugh’s death, his brother Andrew Allan, with the help of local investors among whom may have been
founders of the Montreal Sailors’ Institute [see Andrew Allan] and he served as its secretary for many years. When the institute, which attempted to save sailors from the temptations of the
board he rubbed shoulders with Sir Hugh Allan* and Andrew Frederick
Allan*]. In 1880 Ritchie, McMullen, and his brother, J. B. McMullen, acquired the Prince Edward County Railway, running from Picton to Trenton. A year later the three men, along with William
materially from the defeat. In 1858 the North-West Transportation, Navigation and Railway Company, controlled by Howland, Allan Macdonell*, and
Tyne, England, rather than the competing Allan Line, much to the discomfiture of the Conservatives. With an annual grant of $750,000, paid jointly by Canada and the British government, the firm undertook
himself as a Liberal.
New Brunswick provincial politics after 1867 continued to centre on confederation. The government of Andrew Rainsford
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