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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Pease, Edson L. (Edson Loy), 1856-1930
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Description area
Dates of existence
1856-1930
History
Edson Loy Pease was born on September 2, 1856, in Coteau-Landing, Quebec.
He was a successful banker who started at the Montreal branch of the Toronto-based Canadian Bank of Commerce as a clerk in 1875. In 1881, he was promoted to the inspectors’ department of the bank. As a progressive innovator of bank procedures, he started rising in his career, becoming a vice-president of the Royal Bank of Canada. In 1916, he became the president of the Canadian Bankers’ Association. At his death, he was a director of many companies, including the Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Ltd. and the Abitibi Power and Paper Company.
In 1883, he married Diana Ann Rea. He died on December 29, 1930, in Nice, France.