 When Gerald Farrell became the secretary-treasurer of C. Meredith & Co. in 1908, with the expansion of the Canadian West, the firm had started to engage in industrial merger promotion.By 1910, C. Meredith & Co. had opened an office in London and was acting as an issue house in England by at least 1913.After Dominion Securities of Toronto, C. Meredith & Co. was the first Canadian stockbrokering firm to open an office in London, enjoying excellent connections mainly through the firm's close relationship with the Bank of Montreal (of which his brother, Sir Vincent Meredith, was president), Canada's largest and most powerful commercial bank.