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     Vince has few financial institutions. Its remaining local bank, 
     
     the Merchants" Bank of Prince Edward Island, incorporated 
     
     in 1871, occupying a substantial building in Charlottetown, 
     
     and doing a successful business, was recently absorbed by 
     
     the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The Merchants’ Bank 
     
     has agencies at Summerside, Souris, Montague, Alberton, 
     
     P. E. 1., and Sydney, C. B. The Summerside Bank, 
     
     after an existence of upwards of thirty years, was in 1902 
     
     absorbed by the Bank of New Brunswick, which institution 
     
     has now agencies at Charlottetown and Summerside. The 
     
     Union Bank of Prince Edward Island, incorporated in 1863, 
     
     was amalgamated with the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1883, 
     
     and is now known as the Charlottetown agency of that 
     
     great Nova Scotian institution. There is alsoa branch at 
     
     Summerside. The Royal Bank of Canada has agencies at 
     
     Charlottetown and Summerside, and the Union Bank of 
     
     Halifax has a branch at Charlottetown. A branch of the- 
     
     Dominion Savings Bank is established at Charlottetown, in 
     
     which the amount to the credit of depositors on the twenty- 
     
     eighth of February, 1906, was $2,010,394.49. There are 
     
     post ofiice savings banks at Summerside, Souris, Montague, 
     
     Crapaud and Tignish. An agency of the Credit Fowz’er 
     
     F/‘mwo—Caflad/m does business in Charlottetown. There 
     
     are no loan or trust companies. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Merchants and Manufactures.—-—The business men of 
     
     Prince Edward Island are up to date, and stores with well- 
     
     selected stocks are found throughout the province. In 
     
     Charlottetown the establishments of all kinds are equal to 
     
     those of any city of its size in Canada, and the window- 
     
     dressing of many of the stores is excellent. The principal 
     
     dry goods retailers send buyers direct to England for their 
     
     stocks, while the large army of commercial ambassadors, 
     
     who regularly visit the Island, secure substantial orders. In 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown and Summerside there are large and hand— 
     
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