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Banking in Canada


Here we will try to give you some good historical and current information on the Banking industry in Canada.

CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce)
Here we offer a 2 volume publication on the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
Banking in Canada
An address given by Sir Edmund Walker, C.V.O., LL.D., D.C.L., before The Institute of Bankers June 1911. (pdf)
History of the Bank of Nova Scotia 1832-1900

A Letter to a Friend in Nova Scotia
Relative to Banking Institutions and Joint Stock Companies in Canada by Maurice Mask (1888) (pdf)
Historical Sketch of the Bank of Montreal
By J. Castell Hopkins, F.S.S. (1912) (pdf)
A Canadian Bank Clerk
By J. P. Buschlen (1913) (pdf)
Canadian Investments and Opportunities
Issued by Canada General Investment Corporation, Limited (1909) (pdf)
The History of Canadian Business, Volume I, 1867-1914
By R Naylor. The story of the growth of the Canadian chartered banking system is told in detail. Included is an analysis of the many bank failures, and an explanation of the techniques used successfully by the largest chartered banks to dominate banking and finance in the new confederation. Several chapters deal with hitherto unrecorded facets of the development of the financial system of Canada, the major financial institutions and the types of operations they financed.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce, London Branch
Historical Sketch (pdf)
Annals of the Nova Scotian Currency
By Robert Wallace McLachlan (1892) (pdf)


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