Major-General Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, CVO was a Canadian financier and soldier.
16 Facts About Henry Pellatt
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Henry Pellatt is notable for his role in bringing hydro-electricity to Toronto for the first time, and for his large chateau in Toronto, called Casa Loma, which was the biggest private residence ever constructed in Canada.
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Pellatt was born in Kingston, Canada West, the son of Henry Pellatt, a Glasgow-born stockbroker in Toronto, and Emma Mary Pellatt.
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Henry Pellatt's sisters were Mary Kate, Marian Maria and Emily Mountford Pellatt.
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Henry Pellatt was educated at Upper Canada College before leaving in 1876 to join his father's stock brokerage company, Pellatt and Osler, as a clerk.
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Henry 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.
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Henry Pellatt enlisted as a rifleman with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada on 2 November 1876.
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Henry Pellatt rose through the ranks and eventually became the Commanding Officer.
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In 1910, Henry Pellatt took the entire 600-man regiment to England for military training at his expense, to mark the Regiment's 50th anniversary.
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Henry Pellatt later served as the regiment's Honorary Colonel and was promoted to the rank of Major-General upon his retirement from the regiment.
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Much of Henry Pellatt's fortune was made through investments in the railway and hydro-electric industries in Canada, including the Toronto Electric Light Company.
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Henry Pellatt made significant investment in the Cobalt Lake Mining Company during the Cobalt silver rush of 1903.
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Henry Pellatt later built Bailey House in Mimico, at the bend in Lake Shore near Fleeceline, overlooking the commercial stretch on Lake Shore.
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Henry Pellatt subsequently moved in with his chauffeur, Thomas Ridgway, and it was in this house that Pellatt died.
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Henry Pellatt is interred at Forest Lawn Mausoleum, north of Toronto.
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Henry Pellatt's 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.