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Title Money and banking in Canada : historical documents and commentary / edited and with an introduction by E.P. Neufeld
Published Toronto [Ont.] : McClelland and Stewart, ©1964

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Description 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations
Series Carleton library series, 0576-7784 ; no. 17
Carleton library series ; no. 17. 0576-7784
Contents CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: PRE-CONFEDERATION PERIOD -- 1. Playing-Card Currency of French Canada -- 2. Currency Regulations, 1796 -- 3. The Canadian Banking Company -- 4. In Support of Establishing a Bank in 1808 -- 5. Army Bills -- 6. Canada's First Chartered Bank -- 7. Charter of the Bank of Montreal -- 8. Establishing a Bank in the 1830's -- 9. Origin of the Canadian Banking System -- 10. Imperial Regulation of Colonial Bank Charters -- 11. Commercial Crisis of 1837-38 -- 12. Lord Sydenham's Proposal For a Provincial Bank of Issue
13. Hincks on Canadian Currency14. History of Canadian Metallic Currency -- 15. Currency and Banking 1840-1867 -- PART TWO: FROM CONFEDERATION TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- 1. The First Bank Act of the Dominion -- 2. The Canadian Banks and Wall Street -- 3. Canadian Banks in New York -- 4. Reminiscences of Bankers -- Campbell Sweeny -- Robert Gill -- D. Hughes Charles -- 5. The Government Currency: The Monetary Times -- 6. The Government Currency: Reply -- 7. Bank Reserves -- 8. Fewer and Larger Banks -- PART THREE: FIRST WORLD WAR TO SECOND WORLD WAR
1. The Canadian Banks and War Finance2. The Canadian Monetary Situation -- 3. Currency Management in Canada -- 4. The Existing Canadian Financial System and the Establishment of a Central Bank -- 5. Constitution of the Bank of Canada -- 6. Functions, Structure, and Operations of the Bank in Canada -- PART FOUR: AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- 1. Review of Post-War Monetary Policy -- 2. Bank of Canada Policy Appraised -- 3. The Bank Act Revision of 1954 -- 4. Economic Policy Views of James E. Coyne
5. The Economic Policy Proposals of the Governor of The Bank of Canada6. Statement of James E. Coyne Regarding a Bill Declaring the Position of Governor of the Bank of Canada to be Vacant -- 7. Conditions Outlined by Louis Rasminsky on Assuming the Position of Governor of the Bank of Canada -- 8. The Objectives of Canadian Monetary Policy, 1949-61 -- PART FIVE: GENERAL REVIEW -- 1. Banking Legislation 1822 to 1967 -- Note on the Contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Banks and banking -- Canada -- History
Money -- Canada -- History
FICTION -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
Banks and banking
Money
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Neufeld, E. P. (Edward Peter), 1927-
ISBN 9780773560536
077356053X
1282850474
9781282850477
9786612850479
6612850477