The Northern Crown Bank,
Regina Sask Nov 13, 1910

Dear Father,

I received our letter the beginning of the week and will answer it now. As I gave you about all the news of the West in my opinion last letter, I do not know of anything in particular to tell you about this time.  Although they have not given me much money for my services, they are certainly giving me a chance to show them what I know about banking and in saying it myself and knowing that I am right I have showed them that I can do any part of the routine work that they ask and the only thing now is for them to give me a chance as Manager and test my judgement in placing loans.  Do not  expect that they will do this of course for a while, but they have some small branches that they are giving to very young men and I may be a Manager before long but of course do not say a word about anything like this. This is only a possibility and it is better to tell  that I have been made manager, if the time ever comes, then it is to say that I expect to be made one and have the people who know and hear kept waiting.

The people out here are very clannish and I think that accounts for us having the Government business instead of the larger banks.  You asked about the churches here. The Presbyterians and the Methodists are the strongest both having fine large churches. The Roman Catholics are seemingly very strong too. They have a large fine church and a large congregation. There are a lot of Germans in the city and the majority of them are R.C.'s. I was surprised at the number of French and also surprised to find some of them to be staunch supporters of Bourassa. I do not know whether I am as good a liberal as I used to be or not but one thing for certain is that it seems to me that it is time the Libs and the Cons dropped party strife until they by joining forces, down this Nationalist movement which is without a doubt gaining strength. The result of the Drummond and Arthabasca election is a disgrace to the Dominion and poor Quebec is going to be blamed for it all. When I say that I am not as good a Lib as I was at one time, do not think that I am going to do anything that will put you in any strange light or even think that I would vote Cons because at present I would not. But at the same time I do not think the Lib party of today is what it used to be. The Republicans across the line got quite a surprise I should think. Now you know the way things changed at the last British election and now with a complete change in American politics I believe that at the next Dominion election if the Cons could find a good leader other than R. L Borden or G Foster you will see a big change right here in this country.  I may be away out in my calculations but as history of political parties go the Libs have been in power about as long as the most of them and as things like these never remain stationary you are bound to see the Libs slide back as they have gone the limit in other direction. I did not go near Mr. Ball and got his job without references.  I told them where I worked before but they took me on before they even had time to refer to Mr. Mackinnon but I supposed they have done so since.  I am sorry that I said anything about MacKinnon abut writing to Mr. Ball but then it does not make a difference. I had a letter from Dr. Moffatt and he did not say anything about money although I felt that if I did not owe he would not have written me.  Now I do not want you to worry about not hearing from Ry Comm. As when things get bad enough that and if it is necessary you can all move out here and I can leave the bank and go to work at some trade like carpentering or painting and earn 2 or 3 dollars a day and that will and has kept larger families than ours.  The West is not any country to live in unless a man is making money and that is why wages are so high. They have to pay or they can't get men. We had quite a little snow storm out here yesterday and most people with horses are running sleighs today. Our manager here is a very strange man. His name is Logan and I think he is a Winnipegger. He does not interfered with the staff in the lest, not even to speak to them when he comes in in the mornings.  He is a little deaf and sometimes I think this accounts for his strangeness. You mentioned about meeting a man by the name of Douglas. He is a traveller and went up to Huntingdon from Ormstown to a Masonic lodge meeting. You no doublet knew that he was a mason. He was at lodge there the night I got my second also. I found him to be a very fine fellow. I saw him very often in Baril's store and in that way got to know him very well. He told me that he was a relative of Morgan's also by marriage and gave me the same story about him that he gave you and that was what, he said, his wife thought of him. Now I think I will not write anymore this time. Hope you are all well as I am.

Your Son Herb