City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . nk of Upper total, £38 18s. lish a branch Canada, the date being 1835. The manager was Richard Rich- ardson,father of the Hon. Judge Hugh Richardson, of the Su-preme Court of Assiniboia, resident at Regina,andof Mrs. (Judge) Hughes, of St. Thomas. The bank was then located at the corner of Ridout and King streets. Mr. Richard-son continued as manager until the timeof his death,in April, St. successorwas EdwardGo Idsmith, who ?was sent up from the head office totake charge temporar
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . nk of Upper total, £38 18s. lish a branch Canada, the date being 1835. The manager was Richard Rich- ardson,father of the Hon. Judge Hugh Richardson, of the Su-preme Court of Assiniboia, resident at Regina,andof Mrs. (Judge) Hughes, of St. Thomas. The bank was then located at the corner of Ridout and King streets. Mr. Richard-son continued as manager until the timeof his death,in April, St. successorwas EdwardGo Idsmith, who ?was sent up from the head office totake charge temporarily, and after a fewmonths, Wm. Warren Street, the presentJudge Streets father, became the manager,and so continued for many years. Mr. JamesHamilton succeeded Mr. Street, and con-tinued as manager till the failure of the bankin the 60s. Later on the Commercial andthe Gore Banks founded branches in London,and the system of barter that formerly pre-vailed gradually went out of existence,though the order plan of paying wageslingered on till who shall say it finally dis-. CITY HALL. appeared ? At one time, indeed, the cityissued scrip of its own. With this, city workwas paid for, the scrip being receivable inreturn for taxes, market fees, licenses, or anycivic impost, and so acquired general circula-tion locally, and answered all requirementstill remittances or acceptance of drafts be-came necessary. It covers all that is requiredto say that since the first establishment ofbanks here the financial facilities of Londonhave kept pace with the commercial require-ments. At the present time the banks repre-sented in Lon-don are asfollows: Bankof Commerce,G. del. O-Grady, Esq.,manager;Bank of To-ronto, JohnPringle, Esq.,manager;, Esq.,manager;Merc han t sBank of Can-ada, A. St. ,Esq., mana-ger ; Bank ofMontreal, Beddome,Esq., mana-ger; and Bankof BritishNorth Ameri-ca, R. Inglis,Esq., mana-ger; all ofwhich occupybuildingsthat addgreatly toLond
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