Marriage
In 1893, Charles Meredith married Elspeth Hudson Angus (1858–1936), daughter of Richard Bladworth Angus, co-founder of Canadian Pacific Railway and President of the Bank of Montreal.
As a wedding present Richard Angus bought the newly-weds a house known as ‘The Gatehouse’ (which still stands as part of the McGill Faculty of Law, known as the Angus-McIntyre House) on Peel Street. In 1904, the Merediths commissioned Edward Maxwell to build them a large three-storey house at 538 Pine Avenue, which was completed a year later in the Golden Square Mile. Mrs Meredith lived there until her death, when she left it to be used as a residence for the nurses of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. In the 1970s it was bought by McGill University, and serves today as part of the McGill Faculty of Medicine, known as Charles Meredith House. Their old house on Peel Street was afterwards lived in by another of the 'Eight London Merediths', John Stanley Meredith (1843–1920), General-Manager of the Merchant's Bank, Montreal.
In 1897, the Merediths bought 'Bally Bawn', a country house built around a library in 1750 by the Sulpicians, near Fort Senneville and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. They employed the architect Edward Maxwell to design some additions and alterations to the house, later added to again in 1909, giving the house its present size. "An impressive country residence marked by three high gables... Hidden behind the estate's foliage, amidst many flowerbeds, was a tennis court, garages, cottages for the chauffeurs and gardeners, henhouses, greenhouses and various other auxiliary buildings."
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