A Saskatoon building firm has been issued a permit [early in 1978] to undertake construction of new premises for the Bank of Nova Scotia’s Tisdale branch.
According to the assistant town administrator, Gary Gelech, the permit was for the sum of $375,206 [about $1.3 million in 2017 dollars]. It was taken out by Graham Construction, Mr. Gelech told The Recorder.
A Tisdale firm, Simpson-Shatula Redi-Mix Limited, has won the demolition sub-contract to prepare the site for the new building.
Work has already begun on this phase of the project. The new building will be erected on the site of the bank’s present structure here and on adjoining property. The financial firm recently purchased the adjoining property, which had been used for many years as a pool room and barber shop.
Since late last year, the branch has been located in temporary quarters two doors north of the building that is being demolished. According to bank officials, the new 3,744-square-foot building will measure 52x72 feet. Eighteen feet high, it will be built of light-grey, vertical-ribbed precast concrete with light grey roof facia band and feature extensive use of tinted bronze glass windows.
The Tisdale branch originally opened on Jan. 2, 1907, as a branch of the Bank of Ottawa. The Bank of Ottawa amalgamated with the Bank of Nova Scotia on April 30, 1919. Material provided to The Recorder from the bank’s archives in Toronto indicates George Strachan served as the first manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia at the time of amalgamation. He continued in that capacity until 1923 when he was succeeded by R.V. Skinner. Mr. Skinner was succeeded by D.B. Love on June 30, 1931. Other branch managers were John Bogle (April 4, 1932), J. Norman Adams (April 18, 1946), Russell E. Glaze (Nov. 5, 1962) and Ian Garstin (Dec. 10, 1973).
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