History of Canadian Metallic Currency

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Pre-Confederation Period
6. Playing-Card Currency of French Canada 9
7. Currency Regulations, 1796 24
8. The Canadian Banking Company 28
9. In Support of Establishing a Bank in 1808 30
10. Army Bills 41
11. Canada's First Chartered Bank 45
12. Charter of the Bank of Montreal 53
13. Establishing a Bank in the 1830's 68
14. Origin of the Canadian Banking System 77
15. Imperial Regulation of Colonial Bank Charters 87
16. Commercial Crisis of 1837-38 91
17. Lord Sydenham's Proposal for a Provincial Bank of Issue 95
18. Hineks on Canadian Currency 106
19. History of Canadian Metallic Currency 116
20. Currency and Banking, 1840-1867 132
21. From confederation to the first world war
22. The First Bank Act of the Dominion 149
23. The Canadian Banks and Wall Street 163
24. Canadian Banks in New York 167
25. Reminiscences of Bankers 170
26. The Government Currency: The Monetary Times 183
27. The Government Currency: Reply 187
28. Bank Reserves 192
29. Fewer and Larger Banks 196
30. First world war to second world war
31. The Canadian Banks and War Finance 206
32. The Canadian Monetary Situation 218
33. Currency Management in Canada1 223
34. The Existing Canadian Financial System and the Establishment of a Central Bank 234
35. Constitution of the Bank of Canada 247
36. Functions, Structure, and Operations of the Bank of Canada 253
37. After the second world war
38. Review of Post-War Monetary Policy 259
39. Bank of Canada Policy Appraised 275
40. The Bank Act Revision of 1954 299
41. Economic Policy Views of James E. Coyne 308
42. The Economic Policy Proposals of the Governor of the Bank of Canada 318
43. Statement by James E. Coyne Regarding a Bill Declaring the Position of Governor of the Bank of Canada to be Vacant 333
44. Conditions Outlined by Louis Rasminsky on Assuming the Position of Governor of the Bank of Canada 346
45. The Objectives of Canadian Monetary Policy, 1949-61: Empirical “Trade-Offs” and the Reaction Function of the Authorities 349
46. General Review
47. Banking Legislation 1822 to 1944 360
48. Note on the editor 370