This Montreal-based bank was founded in 1869. It absorbed the Northern Crown Bank in 1918 and merged with the Union Bank of Canada in 1925.
Branch
Address
Period
Status
601 Ashton Avenue
1918-?
Binscarth
Russell Street
1918-?
Acquired from Northern Crown (1918), demolished (?)
33 Main Street
1925-1934
Deconstructed (2023)
32 First Street Southwest
1925-1942
121 Broadway Street South
1925-1975
Lac du Bonnet
Third Street
1919-1971
Demolished (?)
516 Burrows Road
?-?
139 Main Street
1919-1968
153 North Railway Avenue
1918-1967
32 Main Street South
1925-1946
Main Street
1925-?
Fourth Street
1925-1994
158 Main Street Northwest
?-?
72 Third Street
1925-1970
202 Main Street
1925-?
302 Third Street
1925-1970
6 Crescent Avenue West
?-?
Main Street
1925-1931
Demolished (2011)
190 Nelson Street West
1925-1933
Railway Avenue
1925-1968
147 Fourth Street
1919-?
Whitemouth
?-?
Winnipeg
Henderson Highway at Johnson Avenue
1925-1939
1909-?
1925-?
1946-?
1918-?
1925-?
216 Portage Avenue
654 Portage Avenue
1918-?
Demolished (1983)
Provencher at Aulneau
Sargent at Beverley
1925-?
1918-1962
See also:
Manitoba Business: Northern Crown Bank
Manitoba Business: Union Bank of Canada
Bridging the Years, 1879-1967 by Miniota Women Institute, 1967, page 133.
Logs and Lines from the Winnipeg River, pages 104, 166.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
We thank Jordan Makichuk and George Penner for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 January 2024