Second World War

Royal Bank established two temporary branch offices in Boundary Bay, British Columbia and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to expressly assist discharged Royal Canadian Air Force personnel. The provisional branches were very successful in providing convenient banking facilities to returning members of the Armed Forces from overseas

Here in a small village in the Apennines, the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment add a touch of home. The soldiers named the quartermaster store, kitchen and mess after familiar Canadian institutional landmarks. Here we see the Pay Masters Offices - affectionately known as The Royal Bank of Canada, 1944

Queen Elizabeth speaking with St. John's, Newfoundland branch employees Jack Cole and Fred Anderson of the Royal Navy, 1941

Joseph Muncaster (left) Bill Merrifield (right), Montreal Main branch page boys and members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, c.1941

Royal Bank of Canada New York Agency employee Lieutenant Raymond G. Clausen serving in the U.S. Cavalry, 1942

Royal Bank employees in training, Parkdale Army Training Centre, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, 1942