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1 Dollar - Banque scolaire F.E.C. Montreal, Quebec
| Issuer | Banque Scolaire F.E.C. (Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes), Montréal |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | F.E.C. Montréal |
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| Reverse description | A large central photographic vignette reproduces a period image of Canadian commercial fishermen working from multiple wooden rowboats laden with their catch; '$1' appears at upper left and upper right corners. Vertical inscriptions 'Pêcheries Canadiennes' and 'Richesse Nationale' flank the vignette, while a full copyright and imprint line runs along the lower margin. The entire design is rendered in green. |
| Reverse lettering | $1 Pêcheries Canadiennes Richesse Nationale Droits réservés, Canada, 1920, Printed in Canada, F.E.C. Montréal. |
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The Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes — the De La Salle Brothers — operated a network of Catholic schools across Quebec, and these banques scolaires notes were classroom teaching tools, not circulating currency. Students would deposit small sums and receive these printed receipts as part of a structured savings curriculum, a pedagogical practice the Brothers promoted widely through their schools in the early twentieth century. The program was designed explicitly to instill thrift habits in working-class French-Canadian children whose families had limited access to formal banking.
Printed in-house by the Montreal branch, the note reflects the order's self-sufficient institutional culture rather than any commercial print relationship.