The Northland Bank was an

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-based

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that failed in 1985. It was incorporated in 1974. It failed and was closed by the Canadian government shortly after the failure, also in 1985, of the

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. The failures of both banks were the subject of a Commission of Inquiry headed by Supreme Court of Canada Justice

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, who issued his report in 1986.

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