Elmbank

Built circa 1865, for Andrew Robertson (1827-1890), President of the Montreal Board of Trade etc., and his wife Agnes Bow (b.c.1829). In 1884, when the 1200 members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science descended on Montreal, Robertson held a garden party at Elmbank for 500 guests. It was also the scene in 1875 of the marriage between the Robertson's eldest daughter, Mary, to James Stewart Tupper, eldest son of Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Bt. After Robertson's death in 1890, the mansion became the home of his daughter, Bella, and her husband Hugh Paton (1852-1941). The Patons divided their time between here and their summer island estate north of Montreal, Île Paton. It was likely demolished after Hugh's death in 1941.