Dallas Bank (48˚26'00" 123˚26'00" E side of Esquimalt Hbr, between Constance Cove and Ashe Head, just W of Victoria). Alexander Grant Dallas (1816–82), born in British Guiana (Guyana), was a director of the HBC and its representative in W Canada, 1857–62, gradually taking over responsibility for the company’s affairs from Vancouver I gov James Douglas. He had begun his business life in Liverpool, England, and spent five years in China with the well-known trading company Jardine,...
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