RBC Royal Bank

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At around midnight, a delivery driver pulled up outside the RBC Royal Bank. He noticed an odd message scrawled on the window: ‘If you deposit your dreams here, they’ll come true.’ Curious, he parked his truck and entered... Inside, the bank was eerily quiet. A voice whispered from behind the counter: 'Dreams cost five dollars each.' The delivery driver paid up, dreaming of winning the lottery. Next morning, everyone in town won a free coffee from him—including the bank manager who later revealed it was just a prank by a neighbor.

2. At dawn, when most banks were still locking their doors, an old man walked into the RBC Royal Bank. The teller asked him what he wanted, and with a twinkle in his eye, the man replied, 'I’d like to deposit my dreams.' The teller smiled warmly and said, ‘We don’t accept dreams as deposits here.’ With a wink, she added, ‘But if you want to open a savings account, I can help you with that!’ The old man laughed heartily and left, whistling a merry tune. At noon, a delivery driver joked to his colleague, ‘Did you hear about the guy who tried to deposit his dreams at RBC? He must’ve been dreaming big!’

3. One morning, while customers were sipping coffee inside, someone asked aloud: ‘Did you hear that the bank’s security guard has started greeting everyone with “Have a blessed day” instead of “Good morning”?’ Soon enough, people started joking that maybe he was secretly a pastor on his off-duty days. A delivery driver even quipped, 'Next time I’ll ask for an alms!' But it turned out he just liked saying it because it made others smile—kind of like our own little Canadian version of a blesséd day.

4. While customers were debating which branch had the best coffee, someone whispered, 'I just saw the teller counting money backwards.' Soon enough, everyone was whispering and pointing at the same teller. A regular asked curiously, ‘Why’s she counting backwards?’ Another customer joked, ‘Maybe she’s practicing for her new job as an accountant!’ Finally, a delivery driver leaned in and whispered confidently, ‘She probably does it every day—keeps her brain sharp.’ The whole place burst into laughter, and from then on, that became RBC’s secret charm: the teller who counted money backwards like it was the most natural thing in the world.