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1867 TO 1901 101the requestof the Central Bank ofCanada for assistance inits difficulties. A year later he acted in a similar capacity inconnection with the arrangements made for liquidating theFederal Bank of Canada with open doors. In 1891 he becamechairman of the Bankers' Section of the Toronto Board ofTrade, which made a thorough study of the Bank Act inanticipation of the revision of that Act in 1890, and as anatural result, Mr. Walker led in the discussions with theFinance Minister over the revision. Out of the activities ofthis Bankers' Section grew the idea of the Canadian Bankers'Association, which was formed as a voluntary association atthe <strong>com</strong>mencement of 1892, and which has since been incorporatedby Parliament and clothed with important powers inmatters affecting the banks of Canada. Mr. Walker waselected a vice-president of this Association at the second annualmeeting held in June, 1893, and president in the following year.In 1899 he acted as chairman of a Royal Commissionappointed to report on the financial position of the province ofOntario, and in 1904 he was chairman of the Section of Moneyand Credit of the International Congress of Arts and Sciencesat the St. Louis Exposition. He has been in successiona trustee, a member of the Senate and a member of the Board ofGovernors, of Toronto University, and is now chairman of thelast-named Board. To his efforts are due the founding of theRoyal Ontario Museum and of the Art Museum of Toronto, 1and he is the head of the governing bodies of both theseinstitutions and chairman of the National Gallery of Art atOttawa. He serves as a member of the National BattlefieldsCommission, which has given to Canada as a nationalpark the historic battle-field of the Plains of Abraham, and isthe founder and president of the Champlain Society. In1908 his public services were recognized by His Majesty KingEdward VII, who created him a Commander of the VictorianOrder, and in 1910 he was knighted as Sir Edmund Walker.The foregoing are a few of the outstanding events in his*Now the Art Gallery of Toronto.

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