This timeline records the decline of Sir Henry Pellatt's fortune, his departure from Casa Loma, his death, and the enduring legacy of the King of Casa Loma book.
- 1921, June 17. Granted rank of Major-General on retirement.
- 1921, June 20. Appointed honourary Colonel of QOR.
- 1923, April 20. Home Bank in trouble and the affairs of Pellatt and Pellatt a mess.
- 1923, August 17. Home Bank closed its doors.
- 1923, Dec. 4. Sir Henry's business partner Sir William Mackenzie died.
- 1923, April. Pellatt and Pellatt on verge of bankruptcy.
- 1923, May–July. The Pellatts were forced to move out of the castle. They moved a few blocks south to settle into two units of an apartment at 41–45 Spadina Road.
- 1924, April 14. Mary Pellatt died.
- 1924, June 23 week. All the goods left at Casa Loma were auctioned in one of the biggest auctions ever held in the city.
- 1924, May 20. Enquiry into the fall of the Home Bank begins.
- 1924, September 9. Trial of officers of the Home Bank.
- 1925. Sir Henry retires from the brokerage business and Pellatt and Pellatt is left in the hands of Sir Henry's son Reginald and partners, Norman Macrae and William Rooney.
- 1925, Dec. 14. Beatrix Leacock, niece of Sir Henry and wife of humorist Stephen Leacock, died.
- 1926, June 22. Sir Henry presented with ceremonial sword at his King estate north of Toronto.
- 1927, March 14. Sir Henry married Catharine Welland Merritt.
- 1929, Dec. 20. Catharine Welland Merritt died.
- 1932. Sir Henry now living at 78 Crescent Road.
- 1933. Sir Henry now living at 62A Bernard Ave.
- 1934. 100th Anniversary of the City of Toronto.
- 1935, May 5. Silver Jubilee of H.M. King George V.
- 1936, January 20. H.M. King George V died.
- 1937. Sir Henry returned to Casa Loma as a guest speaker after the Kiwanis Club of West Toronto reopened the structure.
- 1938. Castle officially opened by Kiwanis.
- 1939, January 1. Sir Henry celebrated his 80th birthday.
- 1939, March 8. Sir Henry died. Funeral held on March 11.
- 1941, February 9. Lucy B. Pellatt died of secondary carcinoma.
- 1946, November 5. Mill Pellatt died of coronary thrombosis.
- 1947, January 3. Sir Henry's sister, Mary Kate Hamilton, died. Gangrene had set into her foot and leg.
- 1949, June 9. Frederick M. Pellatt died of chronic sclerotic heart.
- 1982. Sir Henry Pellatt: King of Casa Loma published. Republished in paperback in 1998.
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