Manitoba Business: Royal Bank of Canada

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.

Manitoba Branches

Branch

Address

Period

Status

Beausejour

601 Ashton Avenue

1918-?

 

Binscarth

Russell Street

1918-?

Acquired from Northern Crown (1918), demolished (?)

Carberry

33 Main Street

1925-1934

Deconstructed (2023)

Carman

32 First Street Southwest

1925-1942

 

Crystal City

121 Broadway Street South

1925-1975

 

Lac du Bonnet

Third Street

1919-1971

Demolished (?)

McCreary

516 Burrows Road

?-?

 

Melita

139 Main Street

1919-1968

 

Miniota

153 North Railway Avenue

1918-1967

 

Minnedosa

32 Main Street South

1925-1946

 

Newdale

Main Street

1925-?

 

Rapid City

Fourth Street

1925-1994

 

Roblin

158 Main Street Northwest

?-?

 

Roland

72 Third Street

1925-1970

 

Russell

202 Main Street

1925-?

 

Somerset

302 Third Street

1925-1970

 

Souris

6 Crescent Avenue West

?-?

 

Sperling

Main Street

1925-1931

Demolished (2011)

Virden

190 Nelson Street West

1925-1933

 

Waskada

Railway Avenue

1925-1968

 

Wawanesa

147 Fourth Street

1919-?

 

Whitemouth

Whitemouth

?-?

 

Winnipeg

Henderson Highway at Johnson Avenue

 

 

646 Logan Avenue

1925-1939

 

460 Main Street

1909-?

 

504 Main Street

1925-?

 

618 Main Street

1946-?

 

968 Main Street

1918-?

 

1825 Main Street

1925-?

 

216 Portage Avenue

 

 

654 Portage Avenue

1918-?

Demolished (1983)

Provencher at Aulneau

 

 

Sargent at Beverley

 

 

409 Selkirk Avenue

1925-?

 

William and Sherbrook

 

 

See also:

Manitoba Business: Northern Crown Bank

Manitoba Business: Union Bank of Canada

Sources:

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