Lieutenant-Colonel D.K. Tow
Toronto Scottish Regiment

New occupant of the general manager’s office at 75-year-old Toronto General Trusts Corp. is Donald Koser Tow, 50. His corner office faces on two other Toronto institutions whose roots also extend well back into the nineteenth century–the Toronto Stock Exchange to the west, the Toronto Telegram to he south.

(National Post, 12 Apr 1958, 6)

Born in Toronto on 4 July 1907, Donald Koser Tow held a commerce degree from the University of Toronto and worked for the Canada Trust Company in Windsor and Toronto. He had belonged to both the Essex Scottish Regiment and the Toronto Scottish Regiment. The went overseas with the latter in December 1939 and then became as deputy assistant adjutant-general with Canadian Military Headquarters.

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