The Great War Memorial Plaques

As a memorial to the members of staff who gave their lives in the Great War, The Bank of Nova Scotia commissioned unknown designers between July 1920 and March 1921 to create bronze tablets bearing their names; these were then placed on the walls of the branches they worked in when they joined the military forces. The plaques listed the names of staff who had been killed on the field, as well as those who were first returned wounded or missing and were afterwards officially recorded as deceased.

Of all the war memorial plaques created between July 1920 and March 1921, the Scotiabank Archives has a total of seven tablets within their collection:

BainesEB

Name: Egerton Bancks Baines
Branch: Ontario, Toronto, General Office

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John Henry Campbell

Name: John Henry Campbell 
Branch: Ontario, Trenton, Consecon

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MacKay and Pherson

Name: Andrew Edward Hector Hugh MacKay
Branch: Alberta, Calgary, Commercial Banking Centre & Main Branch
(240 8th Avenue SW) (125-127 8th Avenue West)

Name: Duncan MacPherson
Branch: Alberta, Calgary, Commercial Banking Centre & Main Branch
(240 8th Avenue SW) (125-127 8th Avenue West)

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Murray MckayWinchester

Name: Murray MckayWinchester 
Branch: Ontario, Toronto, Bloor & Spadina

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BainesEB

Name: Reginald Creagh Wyse 
Branch: British Columbia, Vancouver, 510 Burrard (Vancouver, Hastings & Seymour)
(602 West Hastings Street) (Former Main Branch)

Name: A. Etheridge 
Branch: British Columbia, Vancouver, 510 Burrard (Vancouver, Hastings & Seymour)
(602 West Hastings Street) (Former Main Branch)

Name: C. H. Lloyd 
Branch: British Columbia, Vancouver, Main Branch (BO)

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BainesEB

Name: Harold Webster Robertson
Branch: New Brunswick, Sackville

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BainesEB

Name: Alan Vincent Franke Trimble 
Branch: Ontario, Toronto, Danforth & Pape (MET)

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If you have any information about other war memorial plaques created, please contact the Scotiabank Archives at archives@scotiabank.com.

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