1 Dollar

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.