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Hey everyone, According to "The Early Banking History of New Brunswick in Canada 1820-1927", a thesis by Thomas James Storring, the bank of Fredericton was absorbed by the Commercial Bank of New Brunswick. Said bank also had branches in Miramichi and Woodstock. http://economics.acadiau.ca/tl_file...0in%20NB.pdfPage 56 So my question is does anyone know where *exactly* the bank in Woodstock was? I know New Brunswick's oldest pharmacy, Newnham and Slipp used to be a bank... http://www.newnhamandslipp.ca/html/history.html...but the President of the coin club I am a member of, his sister in law owns said business. I was told it has a Bank of New Brunswick vault in the basement. I know The Bank of New Brunswick bought out the Maritime Bank of the Dominion of Canada so I assumed that that building was used for the Maritime Bank, now I am not sure. Does anyone have any literature that can tell me what building (or former building) was used for the bank? I looked up the source given in the thesis. "History of Canadian Businesses" by R.T. Naylor mentions the bank on page 120 of his book (Bank Failures in the Maritimes). Sadly the free preview of said book omits pages 121-170... https://books.google.ca/books?id=7f...tock&f=falseAny ideas? Historic photos? Places I could look? |
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have you tried contacting the author of the book(s)?
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Edited by wildflowerAB
03/30/2016 11:29 am
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That link is for Ontario, the OP is talking about NB. Stephen Oatway may have a lead or Geoff Bell. I'll look around too, but they'd be more familiar with the literature you'd need. Edited to add the link to Stephen's site: http://britannianumismatics.com/Edited by chequer
03/30/2016 11:34 am
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Thank you ace_ftw, wildflowerAB and chequer.
I am ashamed to say I never heard of Stepehn Oatway of Brittania Coins, just Hub City and Coin Cabinet.
I should see what Mister Bell knows. He did publish the list of known Maritime Bank notes in 2001. I believe Brian is coming down to our next Woodstock show so I could arrange to have him bring me down any literature Bell is willing to sell on the subject.
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My father has a 1960 reprint of an 1889 map of Woodstock put out by the Woodstock Bugle.
He got it out for me and between his failing eyes and doing this over the phone we got no where.
I found said map in the Boston Public Library online.
If you look at where the Meduxekeg flows into the Saint John river you can see King street. On the corner of King and Main you can see the building I am talking about. No sign though... It would have been the Baird Wholeslaes at the time anyways.
Hopefully Mister Bell or Bryan will respond soon(ish). I know they are running a business.
I have one other idea I want to run by you guys.
A man in Saint John sells all shorts of New Brunswickana, including a book on the post cards of early Saint John and Fredericton.
Maybe I could go looking for the banks on post cards?
I am still not sure why I am doing all this. Once I have all the stuff and the stories to give the stuff meaning what do I do? Write a book 3 people will read? Do a blog? Publish in a journal?
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Cool map. The Bells are getting their Toronto Coin Expo auction together right now though, so don't be upset if you wait a little for a reply.
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My apologies Hwrmonica, wrong province. If you're able to find out if the Commercial Bank of New Brunswick was amalgamated or taken over by another bank, for example the Bank of Nova Scotia, chartered banks often hold amazing information in their archives divisions. That includes details of originating branches of different names, throughout their history from the onset up to present times.
I conducted a bit of research along those lines In the past and my questions were answered through email.
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I figured as much chequer. I will try Stephen too.
I may send an email off to the BofNS archives wildflower, thank you for the idea. I wish everything was digitized online. I actually have an encylopedia set and microfilm machine in my basement but the local library is uncool about lending out newspaper microfilm.
Actually chequer do you have any ephemera from the bank in question? My father wants me to bring that map to the Woodstock show to sell. I would never bring it before to a coin show but since our shows are become a general junk show I loosened up on what I bring. Don't get me wrong I love the variety. Since that map has all the local business on it I will bring it to the show, buy it myself, then hang it on my wall. ANother great resource.
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I try not to collect much other than cheques, since volume can become overwhelming. If I remember correctly, Stephen Oatway used to have a lot of bank postcards, so he may know if one exists for the Commercial Bank or Maritime Bank ... I don't recall seeing one, but that doesn't mean much.
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Any bank in the Maritimes is getting me excited at this point. I will send him an email tonight. Thanks again for a possible lead. I found this thesis. http://www.irec.net/upload/File/mem...eses/351.pdfCanadian Bank Mergers, Rescues and Failures by a Misses Noiseux. I used ctrl F to do a quick search but I may just read through it all. |
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That thesis has promise  |
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