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The Halifax Banking Company was the first bank in Nova Scotia. Established in 1825, it was unable to obtain a charter from the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and operated as a private company. It became incorporated as a chartered bank in 1872 and enjoyed a period of rapid growth and prosperity.
Union Bank of Halifax: 1856 1910 Merged into the Royal Bank of Canada. [170] Union Bank of Montreal 1830s 1840s 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]
The Halifax Shipyard is one of Canada's most well-equipped, having recently undergone a $300-million modernization to accommodate the building of new combat vessels for the Canadian navy. [2] Another deep water port is the Sheet Harbour Industrial Port, which mainly serves the offshore and forestry industry in eastern Nova Scotia.
Rogers Communications had an outage July 8 that affected many activities, including bank transactions.
Halifax (previously known as Halifax Building Society and colloquially known as The Halifax) is a British banking brand operating as a trading division of Bank of Scotland, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group. It is named after the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, where it was founded as a building society in 1853.
Enos Collins (5 September 1774 – 18 November 1871) was a merchant, shipowner, banker and privateer from Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the founder of the Halifax Banking Company, which eventually was merged with the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1903. Upon his death, he was acclaimed as the richest man in Canada.
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The bank constructed its first building of its own on Hollis Street in Halifax in 1837. The Bank of Nova Scotia was founded in 1832 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a British colony at that time. The bank was incorporated by the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia on March 30, 1832. William Lawson was the first president. [10]