Bank of Upper Canada

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The Bank of Upper Canada Building in 1872
The Bank of Upper Canada Building in 1872

The Bank of Upper Canada was a Canadian bank established in 1821 under a Charter granted by the colony of Upper Canada in 1819. At one point it was headed by William Allan, a member of the elite Toronto society called the Family Compact. The bank was a small operation which, like many early Canadian banks, collapsed in 1866.

The building which housed the bank, constructed in 1825, still exists in Toronto and has been designated a National Historic Site of Canada.

[edit] Bank presidents

  • G. Crookshank (1825)
  • W. Proudfoot (1835-1861)
  • William Allen (1861-1863, 1865)
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