The
Canadian Bank of Commerce was a
Canadian bank cofounded in 1867 by
William McMaster. The Canadian Bank of Commerce opened in
Toronto with a charter in 1866 that it purchased from the defunct
Bank of Canada, which folded in 1858. The Canadian Bank of Commerce branch built at Darling and Pearson,
Winnipeg,
Manitoba in 1910 in beaux-arts classicism indicates the financial dominance of Winnipeg, among prairie cities.