Nearly 50 years ago the Guelph Canadian Bank of Commerce, now CIBC, lost a plaque that was dedicated to the employees who served in World War One, recently it was found after an area landscaper dug it up in a backyard.
On the plaque are the names of eight of the young employees who served overseas during World War One.
Archived photos show the plaque hanging in the 1950s, the bank went under construction shortly after, and that’s when it went missing.
The president of branch 234 Royal Canadian Legion Wayne Rahm was on hand at the ceremony when the plaque was rededicated.
“It's very emotional to be involved in a ceremony like this because we realize one of these gentleman did not come back and he's buried in France and you think what would have happened had he lived,”
Margaret Blenkhorn an archivist at CIBC says that the plaque means a lot to the people in the community and the employees at the bank.
“It is more than just a slab of bronze,” she says. “This could very well be someone’s son or even themselves that could have belonged to the plaque.”
No word yet on where the plaque will reside after the ceremony.
With reporting by Marc Venema
