Canadian Bank of Commerce

Canadian Bank of Commerce is a National Historic Site of Canada in Dawson, Yukon.

Yukon · Front Street, Dawson, Yukon · location approximate

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CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Klondike gold! Buying and melting it into bricks, brokering it on world markets, bankrolling entrepreneurs' huge inventories to last the northern winters - these and other important services were performed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Dawson, from the Gold Rush of '98 until 1989. Robert Service was among the clerks who worked here, before his poetry earned him financial independence and the honorary title "Bard of the Yukon." Built in 1901, this Renaissance Revival building is one of Canada's finest surviving structures clad in decorative pressed metal.

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LA BANQUE DE COMMERCE CANADIENNE L'or du Klondike! L'acheter, le mettre en lingots et l'écouler sur les marchés mondiaux, financer les immenses stocks des entrepreneurs en prévision des longs hivers nordiques, voilà les services qu'offrit la Banque de commerce canadienne à Dawson, depuis la ruée vers l'or de 1898 jusqu'en 1989. Le poète Robert Service a été commis dans cet établissement bancaire avant de pouvoir vivre de sa plume et d'être sacré 'barde du Yukon'. La banque, construite en 1901 dans le style néo-renaissance, est l'un des meilleurs exemples encore debout au Canada d'immeubles portant un revêtement décoratif en tôle emboutie.

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Canadian Bank of Commerce

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