DCHP-3

caisse populaire

[< Cdn F, lit., "peoples' bank"]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a credit union.

Quotations

1958
Three men escaped with an estimated $10,000 in cash after holding up the Sacred Heart Caisse Populaire. . . .
1963
His first objective was to get Quebeckers' savings out of the mattress, and in particular out of the province's 1,270 caisses populaires, a group of credit unions whose assets total $990 million.