First World War

First World War Royal Bank and Bank of Montreal veterans photographed before the doors of Royal Bank's head office building in Montreal, 1939. The veterans lined St. James Street during a visit by King George and Queen Elizabeth

Monetary Times of Canada advertisement appealing for public investment in the federal government's Victory Loan program, 1917

In Memoriam of John d'A.H. Arundell from Montreal Main branch. One hundred and twelve similar bronze tablets bearing the names of the 191 staff members who gave their lives in the First World War were exhibited in branches across Canada as a tribute

No. 11 Platoon, no. 3 Company, 2nd Canadian Infantry Battalion was the first organized Canadian Corps to move on German territory. Sergeant J.A. Playford, messenger at Royal Bank's Peterborough, Ontario branch can be seen in the second row seated second from the right, 1919