John Gray (Canadian banker)
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John Gray (Canadian banker)
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John Gray, a Canadian banker, JP and militia officer, was the founder and first president of the Bank of Montreal. Born in England around 1755, Gray arrived in Canada around 1781 as a fur trader. Gray later became an attorney, a trustee and executor of wills and estates, as well as an agent for the British treasury. In 1817, Gray with 12 other Montreal merchants founded the Bank of Montreal and became the bank's first president. Gray died in Côte-Sainte-Catherine in 1829.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray_(Canadian_banker)
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2006-08-07T12:00:07Z
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2024-09-01T20:34:27Z
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