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Banque Scotia logo, used for francophone Scotiabank customers in Canada. The Bank of Nova Scotia (French: Banque de Nouvelle-Écosse), operating as Scotiabank (French: Banque Scotia), is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
Founded as the Union Bank, the name changed to the Union Bank of Montreal about 1841. Closed. [171] Union Bank of Newfoundland 1854 1894 Failed. [172] Union Bank of Prince Edward Island 1860 1883 Merged into the Bank of Nova Scotia. [173] United Empire Bank of Canada: 1906 1911 Founded as the Pacific Bank of Canada before renaming in 1906.
He was a founding director and first president of the Bank of Nova Scotia, now known as Scotiabank. [1] The bank was incorporated by the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly on Mar 30, 1831 in Halifax, Nova Scotia with William Lawson (banker) (1772–1848) serving as the first president.
In modern history, Royal Bank (RBC) has always been the largest by a significant margin, [20] although TD Bank has caught up to RBC in recent years. Up to the late 1990s, CIBC was the second largest, [21] followed by Bank of Montreal, Scotiabank, and TD Bank. [22] During the late 1990s and beyond, this ranking changed due to several ...
Peter Cowperthwaite Godsoe OC OOnt OJ (2 May 1938 – 13 December 2023) was a Canadian businessman and president, chairman and chief executive officer of the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1992 to 2003. He was a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, and served as the chairman of Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and Sobeys.
Thomson was elected a director of the Bank of Nova Scotia on 12 April 2016. On 26 September 2022, the bank announced that Thomson would succeed Brian J. Porter as president. Thomson left Finning on 15 November, and began as president of the bank on 1 December. On 1 February 2023, Thomson assumed the additional role of chief executive officer. [5]
The Bank of Nova Scotia Building is a 25-storey office building in Toronto, Ontario. In February 1929, the Bank of Nova Scotia purchased the north-east corner of King and Bay from Canada Life and proposed to build a new general office building there in 1931.
The Bank of New Brunswick, established in 1820, was the first Canadian bank to operate under a charter.The bank operated independently in New Brunswick and later in Prince Edward Island until it merged with the Bank of Nova Scotia (now Scotiabank) in 1913.