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Author Preston, Jack, 1888-

Title A Canadian bankclerk / by J.P. Buschlen
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1973 (Toronto, Ont. : Scholars Portal, 2015)

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Description 1 online resource (366 pages)
Series Toronto reprint library of Canadian prose and poetry
Toronto reprint library of Canadian prose and poetry.
Contents Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- I. OUR BANKER -- II. SWIPE DAYS -- III. A MAN OF THE WORLD -- IV. BEING A SPORT -- V. MOVED -- VI. THE VILLAGE MAIDEN -- VII. A BANK HOLIDAY -- VIII. A SPORT GONE TO SEED -- IX. THE SEED MULTIPLIES -- X. TROUBLE COMES -- XI. JOYS OF BANKING -- XII. SOME WHEEL-COGS COME TOGETHER -- XIII. THE MACHINERY GRINDS -- XIV. POKER AND PREACHING -- XV. FIRED -- XVI. BLACKBALLED -- XVII. A BANKER'S GIRL -- XVIII. IN THE COUNTRY OF OUR COUSINS -- XIX. FAR-AWAY GREEN FIELDS -- XX. HIGH FINANCE AND PROMOTING -- XXI. THE ASSOCIATED BANKCLERKS OF CANADA -- XXII. SHE WAITS FOR US
Summary Of this novel of Canadian business life and village and city social conditions in the early twentieth century, the author explains that his object is 'to enlighten the public concerning life behind the wicket and thus pave the way for the legitimate organization of bankclerks into a fraternal association.'
Subject Bank employees -- Fiction
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
FICTION -- General.
Bank employees
SUBJECT Canada -- Fiction
Subject Canada
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
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