Redpath: The History of a Sugar House

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Redpath: The History of a Sugar House
Abstract
Details the early history of Montreal's Redpath Sugar Refinery from its establishment in the 1850s to the 1920s. The author outlines the story of John Redpath (1796-1869), a Scottish immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the nineteenth-century boom days of Montreal's growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city. In 1854, Redpath, by then a self-made millionaire in his late fifties, launched a new career as an industrialist. With his son, Peter (1821-1894), and son-in-law George Alexander Drummond (1829-1910) as manager, he established Canada's first successful sugar refinery.
Place
Toronto
Publisher
Natural History/Natural Heritage
Date
1991
Language
en
Notes

See the author's Let Redpath Sweeten It, the corporate history of Redpath Sugar from 1930 to 1990.

Citation
Feltoe, Richard. Redpath: The History of a Sugar House. Toronto: Natural History/Natural Heritage, 1991.
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