1906 – Traders Bank of Canada, Head Office Building, Toronto

An historic 15 storey skyscraper finished in stone, brick and terra cotta. It was the tallest building in the British Empire until the completion of Royal Liver Building in Liverpool in 1911. The historical designation reads “The Montreal Trust Building, originally the Traders Bank Building, Nos. 61–67 Yonge Street at 4 Colborne Street (NE), 1905 by Carrère and Hastings; F. S. Baker, Associate is designated on architectural grounds as a notable example of French-inspired Beaux Arts classicism by a very important firm of New York architects. The building was, when finished, the tallest building in the British Empire (the first skyscraper in Toronto) and it still plays an important part in the streetscape of Yonge Street.” Sadly noth­ing remains of its once stately two-storey banking floor, de­stroyed during one of the many ren­ovations.

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