Colonial Despatches

James Davidson Walker was the manager of the Victoria branch of The Bank of British Columbia from July 1862 to July 1864.1 In 1864 Walker moved to San Francisco to open and manage a new office for the bank in that city. He was succeeded in Victoria by D. M. Lang.2 Walker later served as Deputy Chairman of the Oriental Bank Corporation.3

• 1. The Chartered Bank, Daily British Colonist (Victoria), 29 July 1862, 3. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t7pp1222w; Victor Ross, A History of the Canadian Bank of Commerce [vol. 1] (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1920), 259. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t4fn4z34v; The Bank of British Columbia, Daily British Colonist (Victoria), 15 July 1864, 1. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t6932sg4r
• 2. Ross, A History of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, 301; The Bank of British Columbia, Daily British Colonist (Victoria), 16 July 1864, 1. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t2f789j92
• 3. The Oriental Bank Corporation, Economist vol. 28, no. 1404 (23 July 1870), 936. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t9r30jn27

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