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Line 38: Soon after winning the competition for the Legislative Buildings in Victoria, Rattenbury was involved in a series of financial ventures. He planned to supply meat and cattle to prospectors during the [[Klondike Gold Rush]] and he ordered three steam trains to serve the [[Yukon Territory]]. The investments eventually became profitable. After World War I, however, his luck turned sour with the failure of some financial speculations, eventually leading to conflicts with his business partners. His personal life also began to show strains at this time. In 1923, he left his wife Florence Eleanor Nunn\, whom he had married in 1898, and his adult children, Frank and Mary, for the 27-year-old, twice-married [[Alma Rattenbury\|Alma Pakenham]]. His maltreatment of Florence, which included having the heating and lights turned off in their home after he moved out and the public flaunting of his affair with Alma, led his former clients and associates to shun him, and the couple soon left Victoria. He married Alma in 1925 after Florence agreed to his request for divorce. He and Alma returned to Victoria in 1927 with Christopher, her son from her second marriage. There, they had a son of their own, John, before deciding to move to [[Bournemouth]], England, in 1929, the same year that Florence died.

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