The Giller Prize is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries. The prize was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star, and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward with the winner being presented by the previous year's winning author.
The Bank of Nova Scotia, operating as Scotiabank, is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. One of Canada's Big Five banks, it is the third-largest Canadian bank by deposits and market capitalization. In 2023, the company’s seat in Forbes Global 2000 was 88. It serves more than 25 million customers around the world and offers a range of products and services including personal and commercial banking, wealth management, corporate and investment banking. With more than 89,000 employees and assets of CA$1,399 billion as of April 30, 2024, Scotiabank trades on the Toronto and New York exchanges. The Scotiabank swift code is NOSCCATT and the institution number is 002.
Wood Gundy Inc. was a leading Canadian stock brokerage and investment banking firm. Founded in 1905, it was acquired by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1988 as it attempted to build an investment banking business. The Wood Gundy name was used extensively by the bank's investment banking arm, which was known as CIBC Wood Gundy until 1997. Today, CIBC's investment banking business is known as CIBC World Markets, and the name CIBC Wood Gundy is used as the brand for the bank's retail brokerage business.
Big Five is the name colloquially given to the five largest banks that dominate the banking industry of Canada: Bank of Montreal (BMO), Scotiabank, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), and Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD).
Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1996 to 2000 and CBC Television from 1997 to 1998. The series centred on the employees of Gardner Ross, an investment bank in the Bay Street financial district of Toronto, Ontario.
Scotia Plaza is a commercial skyscraper in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally built to serve as the global headquarters of Canadian bank Scotiabank, it is in the financial district of the downtown core bordered by Yonge Street on the east, King Street West on the south, Bay Street on the west, and Adelaide Street West on the north. At 275 m (902 ft), Scotia Plaza is Canada's third tallest skyscraper and the 52nd tallest building in North America. It is connected to the PATH network, and contains 190,000 m2 (2,045,143 sq ft) of office space on 68 floors and 40 retail stores.
The Bank of Nova Scotia Building is a 25-storey office building in Toronto, Ontario. In February 1929, the Bank of Nova Scotia purchased the north-east corner of King and Bay from Canada Life and proposed to build a new general office building there in 1931. The bank hired John M. Lyle to design the structure, and he devised his initial plans by the summer of 1930. Lyle's original design was of a 23-storey art deco tower. Due to the onset of the Great Depression, the bank put off the start of construction. However, the bank's directors asked Lyle to rework the plans continually throughout the 1930s, which allowed the architect to keep his office open. At the outset of World War II, the bank shelved the project formally.
RBC Dominion Securities was the brand used by Royal Bank of Canada for full service brokerage services, primarily in Canada, and formed part of RBC's Wealth Management and Capital Markets divisions. Today, RBC Dominion Securities is known as RBC Capital Markets and RBC Wealth Management.
Pengrowth Energy Corporation was a Canadian oil and natural gas company based in Calgary, Alberta. Established in 1988 by Calgary entrepreneur James S Kinnear, it was one of the largest of the Canadian royalty trusts ("Canroys"), with a market capitalization of US$4.12 billion at the end of 2007. Its assets were approximately evenly distributed between oil and natural gas.
The Montreal Trust Company is a Canadian trust company that has existed since 1889. In 1967, Paul Desmarais acquired minority control of the company. The following year, he transferred his shares in the company to the Power Corporation of Canada, which in 1972 increased its share to a majority. In 1982, Montreal Trust formed a sister company called the Montreal Trust Company of Canada, and both companies were placed under a parent called Montreal Trustco Inc. In 1989, BCE acquired Montreal Trustco for $875 million. BCE ran the company at substantial loss for the next five years and sought a buyer in the summer of 1993. In the spring of 1994, the Bank of Nova Scotia acquired the company for $292 million, and since that time it has operated as a subsidiary.
George Ryerson Gardiner, was a Toronto businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum, the only museum in Canada devoted exclusively to ceramic art.
Shearson was the name of a series of investment banking and retail brokerage firms from 1902 until 1994, named for Edward Shearson and the firm he founded, Shearson Hammill & Co. Among Shearson's most notable incarnations were Shearson / American Express, Shearson Lehman / American Express, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Shearson Lehman Hutton and finally Smith Barney Shearson.
ScotiaMocatta, originally founded as Mocatta Bullion in 1684, was a precious metal and base metal trading company that operated as the metals trading division of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) from 1997 until January 2019.
CI Direct Trading, a division of CI Investment Services Inc., is an online brokerage firm that provides an electronic trading platform to trade financial assets. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and provides trade execution services for various financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, options, exchange-traded fund (ETF) and mutual funds.
Anthony Richard Graham is a Canadian businessman based in Toronto, Canada. He is presently president and chief executive officer of Sumarria Inc. and chairman of Graymont Limited.
CI Financial is a Canadian investment management company based in Toronto, Ontario. It offers investment management and wealth management services targeted to high net worth retail investors, as well as brokerage and trading services to portfolio managers and institutional investors.
Brian Johnston Porter is a Canadian banker who served from 2012 to 2022 as president of the Bank of Nova Scotia. Porter began his career in 1981 with the investment brokerage McLeod Young Weir, which was acquired in 1987 by the Bank of Nova Scotia. Over the ensuing decades he was appointed to a series of increasingly senior roles with McLeod and the bank. On 1 November 2012 he succeeded Richard Earl Waugh as the bank's president. He remained in the office until 1 December 2022, when he was succeeded by Lawren Scott Thomson.
John Alexander Gordon Bell was a Canadian banker who served from 1979 to 1992 as president of the Bank of Nova Scotia. Bell joined the bank in Toronto in 1948 and worked the next several years in junior roles. Beginning in 1955 he was appointed to a series of managerial positions in England, Canada, and Jamaica. He returned to Toronto in 1968 when he was appointed general manager of the Metropolitan Toronto branches. The following year he was assigned to the head office where he became deputy chief general manager of the bank, and in 1972 he became chief general manager and an executive vice-president. In 1979, Bell was appointed president and chief operating officer of the bank, succeeding Cedric Elmer Ritchie. Bell retired as president in 1992. He died on 10 March 1996 at age 66.
Herbert Deschamps Burns was a Canadian banker who served from 1945 to 1949 as president and from 1949 to 1955 as chairman of the Bank of Nova Scotia. Burns joined the bank in Moncton, New Brunswick in 1896 as a junior clerk. Beginning in 1905 he was appointed to a series of managerial roles, before joining the head office in Toronto in 1923 as assistant general manager. Burns became general manager in 1941 and in 1945 was appointed a vice-president. In October 1945, he assumed the presidency. He held the post until 1949, when he became chairman of the board. Burns retired as chairman in 1955.
Charles Fowler Williams Burns was a Canadian investment dealer. Burns began his career in 1928 as a junior at the Bank of Nova Scotia where his father, Herbert D. Burns, became president in 1945. He left the bank after a year and moved into the investment business. In January 1932 he founded Chas. Burns & Company, a general brokerage, and in September of that year was joined by his brother Latham, at which time the name was changed to Burns Bros. & Company. The firm became a member of the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1936. Also in 1936, Charles and Latham founded a second investment house, Burns Bros. Limited, which dealt in government and corporate securities. In 1939, Wilfred H. Denton joined the firm, and its name was changed to Burns Bros. & Denton Limited.
