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On 11 March 1935, the Bank of Canada began operations, following the granting of royal assent to the Bank of Canada Act. With the exception of the word 'Canada' replacing 'the Dominion', the wording today is identical to the 1934 legislation. The bank's purpose was set out in the preamble to the act: 'to regulate credit and currency in the best interests of the economic life of the nation, to control and protect the external value of the national monetary unit and to mitigate by its influence fluctuations in the general level of production, trade, prices and employment, so far as may be possible within the scope of monetary action, and generally to promote the economic and financial welfare of the Dominion'.

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The bank was chartered by and under the Bank of Canada Act on 3 July 1934, as a privately owned corporation, a move taken in order to ensure the bank would be free from partisan political influence. The Royal Commission's members consisted of Scottish jurist Lord Macmillan, Bank of England director Sir Charles Addis, Canadian former Finance Minister William Thomas White, Banque Canadienne de Montreal general manager Beaudry Leman, and Premier of Alberta John Edward Brownlee. Bennett instituted the Royal Commission on Banking and Currency and it reported its policy recommendations in favour of the establishment of a central bank for Canada. Prior to the creation of the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal, then the nation's largest bank, acted as the government's banker, and the federal Department of Finance was responsible for printing Canada's banknotes. As of July 2017, the museum is now located at 30 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, but is connected to the main buildings through the Bank of Canada's underground meeting rooms. The building also used to house the Bank of Canada Museum, which opened in December 1980 and temporarily closed in 2013. The Bank of Canada headquarters are located at the Bank of Canada Building, 234 Wellington Street in Ottawa, Ontario. The contract to produce the banknotes has been held by the Canadian Bank Note Company since 1935. The Bank of Canada is the sole issuing authority of Canadian banknotes, provides banking services and money management for the government, and loans money to Canadian financial institutions. Chartered in 1934 under the Bank of Canada Act, it is responsible for formulating Canada's monetary policy, and for the promotion of a safe and sound financial system within Canada. The Bank of Canada ( BoC French: Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank. We are not responsible for the information collection practices of the other Web sites that you visit and urge you to review their privacy policies before you provide them with any personally identifiable information. We recommend you review their information collection policy, or terms and conditions to fully understand what that business collects. If you provide the business with information, its use of that information will be subject to that business's privacy policy. (Refer to the Privacy & Security section for privacy protections Union Bank provides to its Web site visitors). The information that this private business collects and maintains as a result of your visit to its Web site, and the manner in which it does so, may differ from the information that Union Bank collects and maintains. If you accept third-party goods or services advertised at our website, the third party may be able to identify that you have a relationship with us (for example, if the offer was made only through our site). By linking to the website of this private business, Union Bank is not endorsing its products, services, or privacy or security policies. By clicking on the link below, you will leave the Union Bank website and enter a privately owned website created, operated, and maintained by another unaffiliated business.