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Excerpt from The Centenary of the Bank of Montreal, 1817-1917 A brief account of some of theseg gentlemen is given in the Reverend Dr. Campbell s History of St. Gabriel Church, from which we learn that John Gray, an Englishman by birth, was a North West trader, and lived outside the city, at St. Catherine 8, now Outremont. Thomas A. Turner was a member of one of the foremost firms of general merchants. He became President of the Bank of Canada in 1 820. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.