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Volume 2 - ElectricCanadian.com

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494 HISTORY OF THE BANKMoose Jaw and Saskatoon,1where <strong>com</strong>paratively narrowcorner sites have resulted in buildings of the portico or pedimentedtype of design. The same type has been developed instone on a larger scale in such places as Halifax and Walkerville.2 In sharp contrast with these, the wider corner siteshi Port Arthur, St. John, N.B., 3 and Brandon, have produceda design almost square in plan, but possessing in its columnartreatment a character all its own. The bank has, however,been far from insisting on corner sites, as will at once berecognized when the Montreal and Winnipeg buildings arerecalled. 4 Many of the best facades have been those ofbuildings on interior sites. New Westminster, Vernon andRegina 5 are examples of such buildings designed to suittheir environment.Among the bank's buildings in Toronto worthy of mentionas being well adapted to the needs of a city branch are Spadinaand College, Yonge and Queen, and Danforth and Broadview. 6Queen East, Earlscourt, and Bloor and Lippincott7pleasing buildings which, among other good qualities, harmonizewell with their surroundings. The plans of the bank'sbuildings have frequently been controlled by the elementaryfact that in the case of a corner site in a town or city, wherelight is available only from the two sides flanked by thestreets, a corner entrance cannot be arranged without placingthe staff on the dark side of the banking room, or arranging acircuitous and wasteful approach to the public space. Cornerentrances are, however, frequently necessary, and in suchcases the architects have aimed to solve the problem bymaking the corner in one sense the front of the building, andby treating the diagonal line of the lot running from the street1See plates 34 and 54, facing pages 214 and 338.'See plates 59 and 52, facing pages 386 and 318.See plates 42 and 59, facing pages 258 and 386.*See plates 36 and 32, facing pages 226 and 206.See plates 56, 63 and 15. facing pages 370, 450 and 110.See plates 67 and 68, facing pages 483 and 486.7See plates 69 and 68, facing pages 494 and 486.are

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