The Bank Of Canada Origins And Early History La Banque Du Canada Origines Et Premieres Annees

Author : Adam Shortt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656512928
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Early History of Canadian Banking, Origin of the Canadian Banking System (Classic Reprint) written by Adam Shortt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Early History of Canadian Banking, Origin of the Canadian Banking System Though the Canadian system was established largely through the influence, and under the direction of persons of Scottish nationality, yet it does not follow that these persons were prejudiced in favor of Scottish examples. The richest national individuality is that which is capable of absorbing the widest range of foreign experience without losing its character istics. It is matter of common observation that the pro nounced individuality of the Scotchman is almost invariably accompanied by the widest cosmopolitanism. The Scotch man's capacity, in every region of the world, to adapt himself to circumstances, or more often to induce them to meet him half way, is proverbial, and mainly because in so doing he only intensifies his national identity. The Scotchmen who were so prominent in the early days of Canadian commerce, did not attain to that position by any special adherence to Scottish experience. Few of them had much occasion to be familiar with the mechanism of exchange before leaving their native country, otherwise Canada had never known them. Their com mercial experience was gained on this side of the Atlantic. Even after they became extensive traders, there were few occa sions in which they had any direct intercourse with their coun trymen in Scotland. The Canadian trade was almost wholly confined to New York and the New England States, and the West Indies, on this side the Atlantic, and London, with a few other English towns, on the other. 80 late as 1823 the ship ping lists show only rare arrivals from any Scottish port. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.