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   From: lcraver@home.ca   
      
   On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:10:12 -0600, Greg Goss  wrote:   
      
   >David DeLaney  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 2013-08-12, Joe Pfeiffer  wrote:   
   >>> Greg Goss  writes:   
   >>>> In my earlier life, three times I opened a Bank of Montreal account   
   >>>> because of location, and each time, I eventually closed the account in   
   >>>> fury.  The last time I moved my account to TD in 1872, and I'm still   
   >>>> with TD.   
   >>>   
   >>> That has got to be some sort of record for customer loyalty....  :)   
   >>   
   >>He _did_ say it was in his earlier life...   
   >   
   >I just browsed the bank history in wikipedia.  These Canadian banks go   
   >way back, long before the founding of the country.  So the account   
   >would have either been in "Toronto Bank" or "Dominion Bank of Canada",   
   >in a bank that by 1872 was already a quarter century old.   
      
   Bank of Montreal goes back to 1819 (I've got one near my work and it's   
   on the stonework) w hile both the Bank of Toronto and the Dominion   
   Bank go back to the 19th century and merged to make TD in the early   
   1960s.   
      
   Canadian banks have always been more centralized than in the US which   
   has been a big advantage in modern times as they are federally   
   regulated (i.e. not by the province or state) and in the era of   
   electronic banking (which in Canada started roughly 1979-80) has   
   helped.   
      
   TD has expanded bigtime into the US (mostly on the east coast) after   
   2008 to the extent it now has more US branches than in Canada.   
      
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