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Known as a farmers’ bank, with shares sold through United Grain Growers, the Home Bank of Canada was also popular with small depositors, trade unions, and Catholic parishes. The bank crashed on 17 August 1923 due to fraud by its management and eight branches in Manitoba closed abruptly. The resulting scandal led to a 1924 Royal Commission and inspired numerous banking reforms such as deposit insurance.
Honour rolls published in the 61st and 144th Battalion souvenir books list bank employees during military service in the First World War.
Branch
Address
Period
Status
Crystal City
RM of Louise
?-?
Franklin
RM of Rosedale
1920-1923
Demolished (?)
Goodlands
RM of Brenda
1910-2023
Demolished (?)
Grandview
Grandview
?-?
Lyleton
RM of Two Borders
1908-1923
Demolished (?)
Marquette
RM of Woodlands
1922-1923
Destroyed by fire (1924)
Rosser
RM of Rosser
?-?
Winnipeg
426 Main Street
?-1923
Demolished (?)
1817 Portage Avenue
?-1923
Demolished (?)
Name
Occupation
Service
Rank
Birth Date
Death Date
Robert George Foster
[Neepawa]Bank Clerk
8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Lieutenant
23 January 1891
9 August 1918
Leonard Victor Morley
[Congregational, Next of Kin]Bank Clerk
4th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Sergeant
9 October 1893
2 September 1918
Vernon Nicholl Severn
[Next of Kin, Pembina Crossing, St. Johns]Banking
43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Lieutenant
28 May 1890
26 October 1917
Cedric William Jubb Storry
Bank Clerk
31st Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
11 August 1889
12 July 1916
Cyril Wilfred Tait
[Headingley, Next of Kin, St. Matthews]Clerk
27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
4 April 1894
19 June 1916
“Collapse of Home Bank quietly received,” Winnipeg Tribune, 18 August 1923.
Goodlands: West of the Turtle Mountains, 1870-1970 by Goodlands United Church Women, 1970, page 3.
Footsteps Through the Years: Ossowa, Reaburn, Marquette, Meadow Lea, Poplar Heights by Marquette and District Historical Guild, circa 1977, pages 94, 378.
Harvests of Time: History of the R.M. of Edward by R.M. of Edward History Book Committee, 1983, page 245.
Rosedale Remembers: 1884-1984 by Rosedale Centennial Committee, 1984, page 183.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.
Page revised: 30 August 2025
