Finder's Aid / Instrument de recherche
Bank of Canada's Report on Foreign Gold during World War II
Due Diligence
A Report on the Bank of Canada's
Handling of Foreign Gold During World War II
Finding Aid
A guide for researchers to the archival records of the Bank of Canada that relate to gold transactions by the Bank between 11 March 1935 and 31 December 1956, by which time the Bank had concluded its own involvement in various wartime gold transactions and Allied efforts to identify and to restore the monetary gold that has been looted by the Axis powers had effectively come to an end.
The Finding Aid is available as a PDF file.
Instrument de recherche
Un guide destiné aux chercheurs qui s'intéressent aux dossiers que la Banque du Canada conserve dans ses archives et qui portent sur les opérations sur or qu'elle a effectuées entre le 11 mars 1935 et le 31 décembre 1956, époque à laquelle avait pris fin son rôle dans les diverses opérations sur or effectuées pendant la guerre et à laquelle les Alliés avaient effectivement mis un terme à leurs efforts en vue de retrouver et de restituer l'or monétaire pillé par les forces de l'Axe.
L'instrument de recherche est disponible ici en format PDF.
This page is part of a report prepared for the Bank of Canada
by Professor Duncan McDowell of Carleton University
on the Bank of Canada's handling of foreign gold during World War II.
Released on November 27, 1997.
Report title page URL: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/gold.htm