Home Bank
The Home Bank of Canada was a Canadian bank that was incorporated July 10, 1903 in Toronto. It failed August 18, 1923 and was the subject of a Canadian Royal Commission initiated by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1924.
Founded with the support of the Roman Catholic Church, James Mason and Henry Pellatt represented a benign board of directors including E.G. Gooderham, Claude Macdonnell and 3 other directors from Winnipeg, Manitoba affiliated with the United Grain Growers.
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Famous quotes containing the words home and/or bank:
“I come from the city of Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,”
—John Collins Bossidy (1860–1928)
“It was like passing a boundary to dive
Into the sun-filled water, brightly leafed
And limbed and lighted out from bank to bank.
That’s how the stars shine during the day.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)