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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Banque du Peuple |
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| Year | 1835-1836 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper. Pastoral vignette at upper centre with men tending cattle and sheep; seated shepherd boy at left, small child astride a deer at bottom centre, and a cherub vignette at right. Note exists with signature varieties. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress print with dense lathe-work guilloche underprint across the field and three stacked oval engine-turned medallions at each lateral margin. Central vignette within a decorative cartouche shows a standing male figure in period dress, arm extended. |
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Banque du Peuple was a Montreal-based institution founded in 1835 with strong ties to the Patriote movement — the same political network that would launch the armed rebellions of 1837–38. Its early notes, including this dollar, were issued during the brief window before the uprisings made colonial authorities intensely hostile to any French Canadian-controlled financial institution.
Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. were among the most capable bank note engravers operating in North America at the time, and Lower Canadian banks routinely contracted them out of New York precisely because no equivalent facility existed in the colony. The bank survived the rebellion period but was wound up by 1871.