The Bank of Canada – which, by the way, will celebrate its 80th anniversary in a couple of weeks – was established during the Great Depression with these objectives in mind,  BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  although there was a hint of a more ambitious set of objectives, given the state of the economy at the time.
The Bank of Canada Act instructed the Bank to regulate credit and currency in the best interests of the economic life of the nation and to protect the external value of the currency, but was largely silent about how to accomplish these tasks. In the event, the gold standard proved to be too rigid a framework for monetary policy.