Allan Gilmour Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Allan Gilmour Sr.

Scottish lumber magnate; created operations in British North America

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Newton Mearns, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Mar-1849

Profession: businessperson, merchant

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Allan Gilmour Sr.

  • Allan Gilmour Sr.
  • (October 1775 – 4 March 1849) was a prominent Scottish-born lumber merchant and shipowner. Born in 1775, Allan Gilmour Sr.
  • was the son of Allan Gilmour and Elizabeth Pollok.
  • He attended the Mearns parish school in the 1780s and early 1790s, and by 1795 ran a small timber business there.
  • By 1802, he had moved to Glasgow and his trade now extended to the Baltic, Russia, and Norway.
  • In 1804, he co-founded the Glasgow-based firm Pollok, Gilmour and Company, together with the brothers John Pollok and Arthur Pollok.
  • Gilmour took charge of pursuing increased international trade for the business, making several trips to North America and Norway to open additional lines of trade.
  • At its peak, and as a result of Gilmour's enterprises, Pollok, Gilmour & Company controlled one of the largest fleets of ships in the world, commanding over 100 vessels.
  • Suffering from the Napoleonic blockade of Baltic timber, he quickly established a new, North American base for the company, sending his brother James Gilmour, and Alexander Rankin to the Miramichi River (New Brunswick, Canada) in 1812.
  • Pollok, Gilmour and Company was soon the largest operator in the British North American timber market, with further branches established at Saint John (1822), Quebec (1828), Montreal (1829), Bathurst, N.B.
  • (1832), and Dalhousie and Campbellton (1833).
  • In 1837 a rift developed between Gilmour and the Pollok brothers.
  • To resolve the dispute, effective leadership was transferred to Robert Rankin, the manager of the Saint John operation. After his retirement, his health soon declined.
  • He suffered a paralytic stroke in 1849.
  • He died later in the same year leaving most of his property, to the sons of his brother James

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