Royal Bank of Canada

LC control no.	n 50069650
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Royal Bank of Canada *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Banque royale du Canada RBC RBC Royal Bank RBC Banque Royale RBC Financial Group
See also	Predecessor: Merchants Bank of Halifax *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	1901
Located	Montréal (Québec) Toronto (Ont.)
Found in	McDowall, D. Quick to the frontier, c1993: t.p. (Canada's Royal Bank) p. vii, etc. (Royal Bank of Canada) NLC 6-23-94 (Royal Bank of Canada) Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (fd. 1864, chartered 1869, was chgd. in 1901 to Royal Bank of Canada.) Royal Bank of Canada Wikipedia page (Royal Bank of Canada, RBC, French: Banque Royale du Canada, RBC Royal Bank, RBC Financial Group; founded in 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Merchants Bank of Halifax; changed name to Royal Bank of Canada in 1901; merged with: Union Bank of Halifax in 1910, with Traders Bank of Canada in 1912, with Quebec Bank in 1917, with Northern Crown Bank in 1918, with Union Bank of Canada in 1925; with Royal Trust; acquired: Bank of Central and South America in 1925, Security First Network Bank in Atlanta in 1998, Centura Bank based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 2001; bought: Banco de Oriente de Santiago de Cuba in 1903, Banco del Commercio de Havana in 1904, Bank of British Honduras in 1912, Bank of British Guiana in 1914, Pedro Gomez Mena e Hijo in 1923 (returned to Cuba's control 1960), Banco de San Juan in 1980. Sold many of its holdings starting in 1980s; sold its American operations to PNC Financial Services, 2011; head office moved from Halifax to Montreal in 1907; corporate headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec, and its operational head office in Toronto, Ontario; in Canada the bank is branded as RBC Royal Bank in English and RBC Banque Royale in French)
National bib agency no.	0001C5900E
Quality code	nlc