Major-General Sir Henry Mill Pellatt , CVO (January 6, 1859 – March 8, 1939) was a Canadian financier and soldier. He is notable for his role in bringing hydro-electricity to Toronto for the first time, and also for his large château in Toronto, called Casa Loma , which was the biggest private residence ever constructed in Canada. Casa Loma would eventually become a well-known landmark of the city. His summer home and farm in King City later became Marylake Augustinian Monastery .
19-407: Pellatt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Apsley Pellatt (1791–1863), English glassware manufacturer and politician Apsley Pellatt (1763–1826) , (1763–1826), English glass manufacturer Henry Pellatt , C.V.O. (1859–1939), Canadian financier and soldier Mary Pellatt (née Dodgson) (1857–1924), the first Chief Commissioner of
38-531: A partnership with his son under the name Pellatt and Pellatt. Pellatt married twice, first to Mary Dodgson in Toronto in 1882 and, after Mary's death in 1924, to Catharine Welland Merritt in Toronto in 1927 (which lasted until her death in 1929). With his first wife, he had one son, Reginald Pellatt (1885–1967), who was a Colonel and married with no children. Pellatt enlisted as a rifleman with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada on 2 November 1876. He rose through
57-569: A public-spirited man who for some years served on the Common Council of the City of London . He unsuccessfully contested Bristol at the 1847 general election , and was elected at the 1852 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Southwark . He held the seat until his defeat at the 1857 general election , and was unsuccessful when he stood again in 1859 . He died in Balham in 1863 and
76-550: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Apsley Pellatt Apsley Pellatt (27 November 1791 – 17 August 1863) was an English glassware manufacturer and politician. He was the son of glassware maker Apsley Pellatt (1763–1826) and Mary (née Maberly) Pellatt. He joined the family glass-making company of Pellatt and Green in 1811. He took over the London-based glass-works on his father's death, renaming it Apsley Pellatt & Co. His main interest lay in
95-759: The Toronto Electric Light Company . He also made significant investment in the Cobalt Lake Mining Company during the Cobalt silver rush of 1903. Later in around 1915, using riches from his Cobalt Lake Mining Company, he invested in the fledging McIntyre Mines in Timmins Ontario. However, legislator Adam Beck launched a campaign against the great industrialists of Canada, proclaiming that hydro power "should be as free as air". Through legislative process and by whipping up anti-rich sentiment, Beck
114-651: The Girl Guides of Canada See also [ edit ] Bellatti Pellet (disambiguation) Platte (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Pellatt . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pellatt&oldid=1098959808 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
133-777: The beginning of the First World War . After the province expropriated his electrical power generating business , and his aircraft manufacturing business was appropriated by Beck as part of the war effort during the First World War, Pellatt was driven to near-bankruptcy, which forced him and Lady Pellatt to leave Casa Loma in 1923. They therefore moved to their farm at Marylake in King City. Prior to building Casa Loma, Pellatt sold his summer retreat in Blantyre / Fallingbrook area of southwest Scarborough to his son Reginald and other parts of
152-401: The chemistry of glass-making. In 1819, he took out his first patent for the manufacture of "sulfides" or Cameo Incrustations. Pellatt originally called them "Crystallo-Ceramie," reflecting their French origin. The process involved the embedding of ceramic figurines into the glass sides of paperweights, jugs, decanters, etc., by cutting a hole in the hot glass, sliding in the insert, and resealing
171-459: The estate to others; Chateau des Quatre Vents at 3025 Queen Street East was built in 1892 by William T. Murray on land acquired from Pellatt former summer estate. E.J. Lennox built another home in front of 3025 and signed as 3027 Queen Street East in 1910. The estate was once on land owned by Peter Patterson and before that Clergy Reserve . Only the groundskeeper home remains and rest of the estate redeveloped into residential homes. His summer estate
190-500: The glass afterward. Pellatt became the most famous and successful producers of sulfides in England from 1819 to the mid-century rivalled only by Baccarat in France. He described their manufacture in a book on glass-making entitled "Curiosities of Glassmaking" published in 1849. After his retirement around 1850, the glass-works went into decline in the hands of his brother Frederic. Pellatt was
209-544: The ranks and eventually became the Commanding Officer . In 1905, he was created a Knight Bachelor by King Edward VII for his service with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. In 1910, Pellatt took the entire 600-man regiment (including its horses) to England for military training at his expense, to mark the Regiment's 50th anniversary. The military exercises lasted from August 13 to October 3, 1910. Pellatt later served as
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#1732844218363228-649: The regiment's Honorary Colonel and was promoted to the rank of Major-General upon his retirement from the regiment. In addition, he was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1910. From 1911 to 1923, he was the Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor . Much of Pellatt's fortune was made through investments in the railway and hydro-electric industries in Canada, including
247-406: Was able to successfully appropriate Pellatt's life work and take his electric companies from him. Beck then led a populist revolt to raise Pellatt's taxes on his castle, Casa Loma, from $ 600 per year to $ 12,000. The strain of losing all of his income, coupled with the large increase in property taxes for his castle, led him to rely solely on his real estate investments, which were unsuccessful due to
266-497: Was buried at Staines , where he had lived in later life. He had married twice, firstly in 1814 to Sophronia, daughter of Thomas Kemp; she died in 1815 aged only 23. He married secondly, in Streatham in 1816, to Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of George Evans, of Balham, with whom he had one son, Apsley (who died young) and four daughters. His second wife died in 1874 and was buried alongside him. His younger brother, Mill Pellatt (1795-1863)
285-513: Was buried with full military honours. He is interred at Forest Lawn Mausoleum , north of Toronto. His life has been featured in the film The Pellatt Newsreel , which aired on the Biography Channel and was nominated for a 2009 Gemini for Best Biography Documentary. The film, narrated by Colin Mochrie , is shown continuously in the theatre at Casa Loma, which is located where the swimming pool
304-588: Was destroyed in a fire in the 1920s. Pellatt later built Bailey House in Mimico , at the bend in Lake Shore near Fleeceline, overlooking the commercial stretch on Lake Shore (the house later became a Legion Hall and was demolished to make way for a roadway). He subsequently moved in with his chauffeur, Thomas Ridgway, and it was in this house that Pellatt died. After he died on March 8, 1939, thousands of people lined Toronto streets to witness his funeral procession, and he
323-598: Was grandfather of Canadian financier Sir Henry Pellatt . Henry Pellatt Pellatt was also a noted supporter of the Boy Scouts of Canada . His first wife, Mary , was the first Chief Commissioner of the Girl Guides of Canada . Pellatt was born in Kingston , Canada West (now Ontario ), the son of Henry Pellatt (1830–1909), a Glasgow-born stockbroker in Toronto, and Emma Mary Pellatt ( née Holland). His great-grandfather
342-415: Was married to Canadian economist and humourist Stephen Leacock . He was educated at Upper Canada College before leaving in 1876 to join his father's stock brokerage company, Pellatt and Osler, as a clerk. In 1882, Pellatt's father and Sir Edmund Boyd Osler parted ways, and Pellatt completed his apprenticeship and became a full member of the stock exchange . In the following year, Pellatt's father set up
361-427: Was the glassmaker Apsley Pellatt . Pellatt had three sisters and two brothers, Fred Pellatt (grandfather of Toronto-based freelance writer John Pellatt) and Mill Pellatt (father of Mary Katherine Pellatt). The latter brother was paymaster of the Toronto Electric Light Company , a job obtained for him by Pellatt. His sisters were Mary Kate, Marian Maria and Emily Mountford Pellatt. One of his nieces, Beatrix Hamilton,
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