Canadian Bank

In all of the provinces of Canada, in the greater and lesser Antilles, in nine regions of South America, in Manhattan, Paris and Barcelona--the Royal Bank of Canada operates 884 branch offices. General Manager C. E. Neill was able to state last week than the bank's assets are $894,663,903, the largest ever reported by a Canadian bank and one of the largest ever reported. Bank headquarters are in Montreal. The president of the board of directors is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt.*

*Sir Herbert, before engaging in banking and public utilities, served as a civil engineer in the engineering & construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, among others. The eldest of his three sons, Captain Herbert Paton Holt, lives in England and is a member of the British Parliament.