Canada Trust

Canada Trust is a bank. Banks keep money, jewels, and important documents for safekeeping. When you put money in banks you invest. Invest means you make more money out of what you have. By just keeping it in the bank your money earns interest. Safe deposit boxes keep the valuables, such as documents, jewelery or money, safe. The safe deposit boxes are kept in the vault. The vault has two doors, one can be opened with a key, the other is timed for 9:00 am and is fire proof. The instant teller machine does not make money, you have to load it with money everyday. You can put your bank card in the instant teller machine and it will give you money but you have to have money in your account. Computers keep track of everything! Bank cards, members, and sometimes even records. There are video cameras, they are for security. You can see what is going on in every room, from the staff room. We were on T.V too ! Every safe the bankers use has two combinations. So one banker could not steal the contents. (Not like they would, they are pretty nice people.) Upstairs there is a staff room, a shoe closet, and two rooms of records. The records are organized by year. They are kept for seven years, then burned. Communities are pretty cool to study and banks are very organized. They even gave us cookies and juice !