Advertizing Steel Bank"The Merchant Bank Of Canada+Post Card"Late XIX Century"

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I want to share with you, another Advertizing Promotional Steel Bank, this one from The Merchant Bank of Canada, manufactured by Automatic Recording safe Co,Chicago, Illinois, also in this post a Canada post card send from The Merchant Bank of Canada,Toronto to The Bank of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia,Canada.
This Post card was send from Toronto the 25 september 1880, receive in Halifax the 30 September 1880 and finaly Bridgtown Nova Scotia the 1 October 1880.

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----------------------The Merchants Bank of Canada------------------------------

The Merchants Bank, founded by Hugh Allan, head of the Montreal Ocean and Steamship Company, received its charter in 1861 and opened for business in 1864. It first appeared in Montreal’s Lovell’s directory at 2 Toupin’s buildings, Place d’Armes, with Jackson Rae, Hugh Allan’s brother-in-law, listed as the cashier. The Merchants Bank was a new venture for Hugh Allan, who had also served as a director of the Bank of Montreal from 1847-1857. Jackson Rae had worked for the Bank of Montreal as their agent in New York.

Presidents of the Merchants Bank (of Canada)

1864-1877-----------------------------------------Hugh Allan (1810-1882)

1877- Jun 21, 1882-----------------------The honorable John Hamilton

Jun 21, 1882,------------------------Sir Hugh Allan (1810-Dec. 9, 1882)
Dec 9, 1882

1882-1901-Andrew Allan (Sir Hugh’s brother) (1822 - June 27, 1901)

1901-1922---------Sir H. Montagu Allan (Sir Hugh's son) (1860-1951)

The Merchants Bank remained a Quebec Company until it took over the troubled Commercial Bank of Canada based in Kingston, Ontario in 1867. The name was then changed to the Merchants Bank of Canada and 17 Ontario branches came under the bank’s control. Head Office was located at 315 Notre Dame in Montreal’s Place d’Armes then later moved to their new building at the corner of St. Peter and St. James (Rue St. Pierre and Rue St. Jacques) in 1873/74