page_title: Enos Collins
section_title: Retirement
hierarchical_section_title: Enos Collins / Retirement
caption_attribution_description: English: Enos Collins' Court, Historic Properties, Halifax, Nova Scotia
context_page_description: Enos Collins was a merchant, shipowner, banker and privateer from Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the founder of the Halifax Banking Company, which eventually was merged with the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1903. Upon his death, he was acclaimed as the richest man in Canada.
context_section_description: Collins retired from active business and politics in 1840, but continued to manage his large investments and back the Conservative party in Nova Scotia. In 1864, at the age of 90, he came roaring out of retirement to oppose Confederation as a supporter of Joseph Howe's Anti-Confederation Party. Collins died in 1871 with an estate valued at $6 million, reputed to be the largest personal fortune in Canada at the time. He was buried in Camp Hill Cemetery. His "Gorsebrook Estate" is today the site of Saint Mary's University, Halifax, although the university demolished his historic mansion in the 1960s.
caption: Enos Collins' Court, Historic Properties, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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