The following are useful references that I have collected over time. I have included links to those references which are available for free online.
A fascinating first-person account of Canada's financial administration during the Great War. Written in first-person narrative by Canada's Minister of Finance from 1911 to 1919.
In 1933, Canadian Prime Minister R.B. Bennett set up a Royal Commission to study “the organization and working of our entire banking and monetary system [and] to consider the arguments for or against a central banking institution." The Bank of Canada was created soon thereafter, receiving Royal Assent in 1934 and opening its doors on 11 March 1935.
History of the Bank of Montreal Vol 1
History of the Bank of Montreal Vol 2
A story of epic proportions, amounting to over 1,000 pages and tracing the history of Canada's first permanent banking institution from its creation in 1817. The Bank of Montreal was Canada's banker prior to the creation of the Bank of Canada.
The evolution of the Canadian banking system since Confederation.
Canada's Department of Finance through the Great Depression.
Graham Towers and his Times. Biography of Canada's first central bank governor.
The Bank of Canada: Origins and Early History. A collection of seven articles originally published in the 1970s in the Bank of Canada Review.
A History of the Canadian Dollar. Bank of Canada publication.