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18A_ THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, April 11, 1967 | Thomas Dow Bank Agent | Here In 1853 The Bank of Montreal's! Whitby Branch is entering its | 14th year of operation. | Donald Robertson, the. man- ager, said the branch began} business March 1, 1954 when) hinge at 102 Brock Street irst housed the branch. How- | ever, as the demand grew for| increased banking facilities, the | bank in 1960 opened its present | office at the corner of Dundas | and Brock Streets to replace | the original quarters. However, history records that the Bank of Montreal had a much earlier association with Whitby. A history of Ontario County, published in 1878, states that Thomas Dow, a son of Wil- liam Dow, one of the pioneer residents of the area, was ap- Pointed agent for the bank in Whitby in 1853. This was the first bank agency in the county town. The first manager of the branch, which opened in 1954, was J. N. McKone, who !eft in 1958 and is now manager of the branch in Midland. He was succeeded by C. G. Sutherland, who served until 1965 when he moved to the bank's City Hall branch in London. Mr. Robertson became man- ager at Whitby in November, 1965, after having held the same position at Grand Bend. Today, the Whitby branch is one of 350 B of M offices throughout Ontario, one-third the number in al lof Canada. There are four other offices in the Oshawa district. In addition to branches at Ajax, where J. A. Logan is manager, and at Bowmanville, where the manager is J. A. Bell, the bank has two offices | in Oshawa. The main Oshawa _ branch, | which was established almost | a half century ago, in 1919, is) managed by James McCansh, | while Donald Shanahan is man- ager of the Oshawa Shopping Centre branch, 1817 FOUNDING The Whitby B of M, like the other offices in this area, is backed by the resources and facilities of Canada's oldest bank, which was founded in November 1817 by nine Mont- real merchants. Production Boost Seen The William J. Anderson's Company Limited plant has hap- pily been located in Whitby since a number of the execu- tives and directors returned from the war in April 1946, pro- ducing 'an extremely wide range of cartons and folding boxes, set-up paper boxes, steel stampings covered in velvet and leatherette and lined with beau- tiful satins and velvets as watch, ring, jewellery and fancy ring boxes. Lately the firm has expand- ed its distribution to include fancy gift wrapping papers, and controls world + wide dis- tribution of the popular new "Instant Bow" ribbon, which allows a gift - giver to make | a bow for a gift package in two seconds flat. | The company's distribution | covers all of Canada through | roughly 5,000 retail outlets and | a close - knit jobbing and dis- | tribution organization, plus aj} newly developing export depart- | ment already shipping to such | countries as Bermuda and Car- | ibbean nations. | Production of 45 or 50 em- ployees will be handsomely augmented through expansion planned last year on some of the company's vacant proper- ty, but not yet completed be- | cause the company has been operating at top speed on cur- rent orders, WHITBY CITIZENS PROUD OF MUNICIPAL BUILDING Sklar Firm Steps Ahead| From a modest beginning in 1946, Sklar Furniture has be come Canada's largest and most modern upholstery furni4 ture operation. Besides its mod- ern 230,000 square foot plant at Whitby, Sklar has a unique 10,000 square foot showroom at Downsview near Toronto amnd| warehouse facilities in other! major Canadian cities. A continued forward step was recently taken with the an- nouncement that the Sklar Company had joined Stancor| Limited of Toronto. As a divi- sion of Stancor, Sklar now joins with Peppler Brothers and the Peppler-Selig Division in comprising Canada's largest, integrated furniture operation. A major event in the Cana- dian furniture industry, Stancor| Limited brings the latest meth- ods of production and market- ing to a field that has tended to be fragmented into a large number of small companies. More than one thousand em- ployees, together with consum- ers, retailers and investors willl benefit because of the size and variety of Stancor. For the first] time there is complete back-up! and support in design, produc- tion scheduling, quality control, merchandising and advertising# in a major segment of the Canadian furniture industry. In the reorganization the en- tire management team, includ- ing the Sklar Brothers, will continue in their present posi- tions in the Whitby operation. In addition the Sklars have; assumed senior responsibilities MEL - RON CONSTRUCTION GENERAL CONTRACTORS Industrial -- Institutional -- Commercial Concrete Structures Curbs -- Bridges - Catch Basins P.O. BOX 297 WHITBY PH. 668-5841 401 Hopkins St. Whitby, Ont. TORONTO PH. 364-1581 in Stancor Management. Your kind of shoe-- fliSp "HARMONY" '4 h { j ! ' ¢ 3 ee Air Step spotlights the fashion toe. What high jinks you'll be up to in this pretty shoe. Black -- Blue and Bone. Available in Sizes from 4% to 10. AAA to C. COLLINS Shoes SINCE 1872 119 BROCK ST. SOUTH -- WHITBY $16.98