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Hugh Blair Mackenzie (1867-1930) was born in Ingersoll, Ontario. The family moved to Brantford where his father, the Venerable G. C. Mackenzie, D. C. L., Archdeacon and rector of Grace Church, Brantford. He studied at Trinity College School in Port Hope. In 1884, aged 17, he found an opening at the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Brantford. Three years later he went to the Bank of British North America. He rose to a position of chief inspector, a position that took him to small places and where he started new branches, including in places for which there are pictures in his albums. For a while he was manager of the branch in Victoria, B.C. and then in 1907 was superintendent of central branches, working out of Winnipeg. He was credited with “nursing infant branches to prosperity.” In 1909, he went to Montreal where he was superintendent of branches. The Bank of British North America merged in 1917 with the Bank of Montreal. He served in many positions before becoming general manager of the Bank of Montreal in October 1929, successor to Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor.