![]() Hill’s savings, and those of others, was gone. Her peace of mind, and that of roughly 60,000 other Home Bank depositors from Quebec to Fernie, British Columbia, was shattered thirty minutes later when the seventy-one-branch, Toronto-based Home Bank of Canada shut down. Hill had been enjoying the warm, sleepy Friday afternoon in Toronto and had decided to deposit another $40 in the small bank she had come to trust with her family’s money. She had “banked” most of their cash in May, for fear she would “lose it” at home.įive days before pleading to Church for help, Mrs. The “money,” - $234.19 (roughly $2,600 today) - was put aside, said the desperate woman, for the coming “winter’s supply of clothing and coal” that she, her husband, and their two small children would surely need. It is “to ask you to try to get our money back, if it is humanly possible, for the poorer class at any rate.” ![]() Hill of Toronto’s 45 Sackville Street in her brief note of August 22, 1923, to T.L. ![]() “This is not a begging letter, Sir,” wrote Mrs. Canada's History Youth Committee Members.The John Bragg Award for Atlantic Canada.
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