. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. Oo-x 11 I 2. The Post Office Savings Bank Systera of Canada. Bij J. Cunningham Stewart. The history of Pest Office Savings Banks in a new country heinfr waiitinj: ii whatâas applied to the Post Oiiice Savings Banli system of Great Britainâniiu be teime'l tlie ' jmvliistoric element,' the records of the Post Otlice Saviii;,'g Bank in Canada are witliout llioso earlier a
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. Oo-x 11 I 2. The Post Office Savings Bank Systera of Canada. Bij J. Cunningham Stewart. The history of Pest Office Savings Banks in a new country heinfr waiitinj: ii whatâas applied to the Post Oiiice Savings Banli system of Great Britainâniiu be teime'l tlie ' jmvliistoric element,' the records of the Post Otlice Saviii;,'g Bank in Canada are witliout llioso earlier annals which are so attractive in tliu ,stud\ o^" the parent system. They k^como a someAvhat hald statement of figures, ami u\ results achieved since the year 1808 when, ])aijlic attention having been directed! the success of the Post Ollice Savings Banks in iMigland, a scheme, in its mnin features a reflection of the British system, received legislative sanction in C'nnada. From 18G8to 187S tne progress of the Post Otilce Savings Banks in Canada ; slow. Shice 1878, and up to tlie present time (July 1884), t lie increase has ktii rapid. There are now .â )4.'! Post Ofiices authorised to receive deposits, with GG,G8:' depositors' accounts in the ledgers of the Bank, and the balance standing to their credit is ,{?13,L>45,uo2, an aveiage of ,^in8.(i;j (say 40/. sterlinir) in tlie name of eacL depositor. There have been in all 852,143 dejiosits and 41(),i'5i) withdrawals; 22;J,8;{4 persons have opened accounts, of which 157,152 were stihsequeutly closed. The deposits were held among the following classes, arranged in the order nf the most numerous and wealthy; Farmers, Marriid women, Siiit/le women. MeehcDiics, Trustees ami 7)i!ii()rs, Lalxmrcrs, Widows, ('lerl;n, Trarlesiium, Mi'i- eellaneous. Farmers are one-fifth of the wliole numerically, and own one-third of the entire deposits. Tlie proportion of depositors to population is: â In Ontario 1 to .â¢{4
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