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Hugh Allan
Beacon
June 1/1899
This summer St. Andrews will have as residents the heads of two of the greatest transportation companies in Canada—Sir William Van Horne, president of the CPR, and Mr. Hugh Allan, of the Allan Steamship company. Both gentlemen will come here for pleasure, but we trust that the advantages of the place for ocean trade will impress themselves so strongly upon their minds, that they may be driven to consider St. Andrews from a business point of view as well.
Beacon
June 1/1899
Mr. Hugh Allan of Montreal, head of the great Allan Steamship company, has engaged rooms at the Algonquin, and will spend a large part of the season here. He will bring his horses and carriages with him.
Beacon
June 29/1899
Mr. Hugh Allan will arrive from Montreal tomorrow (Friday), bringing with him his horses and carriages. He will be a guest at the Algonquin for the season.
Beacon
July 6/1899
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Allan and family, of Montreal, with the servants, were among the first to register at the Algonquin. Mr Allan brought this horses with him, quartering them at Mr. William Anderson’s.
Beacon
Sept 7, 1899
Sir Hugh Allan among the last to check out of the Algonquin.
Beacon
July 5/1900
Hugh Allan and family back Algonquin again this year.
Beacon
July 12/1900
Among the equine turnouts now to be seen on the St. Andrews streets are those of Mr. Hugh Allan, the steamship magnate; Mr. Charles R. Hosmer’s, Mr. Smith’s and Mr. Hope’s, all on Montreal.
Beacon
August 30/1900
On invitation of Mr. Hugh Allan, a large party of Algonquin people enjoyed a sail in the Juanita on Friday.
Beacon
Sept 6/1900
The announcement which was posted on the Algonquin hotel bill-board last week, to the effect that the hotel would close on the 5th, caused an immediate packing of trunks and hasty preparations for flitting homeward. Day after day, for a fortnight past, the tide of travel has been ebbing westward, and in a few weeks the pleasant summer season of 1900 will be but a memory. To say that many of the hotel guests were disappointed at the early closing of the house, expresses but feebly their chagrin. The hope had been held out that owing to the warm wave that was passing over the cities to the westward the hotel season would be lengthened, but, though many persons would have willingly stayed longer the hotel management did not see their way clear to prolonging the season and closed their door on the date announced. The result or this early closing is not only to disappoint the visitors, but to reduce the revenue derived b the townspeople from the summer guests. If there was an adequate number of comfortable boarding houses, or if the outside hotel accommodation was equal to the demands made upon it, many of those who were turned out of the Algonquin might have been induced to remain during the month of September, but there is such a woeful lack of desirable stopping-places outside the two hotels that very few lingered.
Beacon
Oct 11/1900
Federal Election at Hand, R. E. Armstrong running for Charlotte
The people of St. Andrews know whether the Liberal candidate was sine rein his desire to have this port developed or not. They know the part he took in the winter port agitation of 1891 when he went to Fredericton and assisted in securing a grant of $$20,000 for St. Andrews and a like sum for the Ledge. (The latter amount was applied later on, to the construction of the public wharf at SS). The know what he did towards bringing the subject t the attention of the Dominion government, the CPR, the Beaver Line steamship Company, the Allan Line company, and the boards of trade of Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto. They know all this and very much more, and we are willing to abide by their decision. For the information of the editor of the Courier who seems to be grossly ignorant of what is going on in this County, we might just say there that the Liberal government has made a move in the direction of developing Sa, and that this move was as much die to the Liberal candidate as to anyone else.