"Bank of Commerce. Opened in May, 1869,
with Henry Groff as manager, and Duncan Campbell,
accountant. The Simcoe branch assumed control of the business formerly conducted by the old
Gore Block. Succeeding Mr. Groff were F. W. Holmstead, E. Cowdry, who remained manager for
26 years, W. C. J. King, who directed the Bank's destinies
from 1905 to 1920, R. H. Stinson from 1920 to 1923, and C. C.
Parsons, the present manager. In the late seventies the bank was located on the site
of Anderson's Hardware, being removed later to the Landon building at Peel and Norfolk
Streets, and finally in 1923 to its present handsome new home at the corner of Robinson
and Norfolk Streets."
[Transcriber's Comment: This building was subsequently the home of
Guaranty Trust in the 1960s, then the Toronto-Dominion Bank, and currently
[circa 2001] the TD Canada Trust.]
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