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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in brown with multicolour rainbow underprint and a fine guilloche border with repeated value numerals. At left, an intaglio vignette of the Coat of Arms of Canada; at right, an intaglio portrait of Sir Robert Laird Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (1911–1920), in formal attire. A seven-digit serial number appears twice — the left serial in red ink and the right serial in blue ink — with a two- or three-letter prefix. |
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| Reverse description | The back is printed in olive and brown tones, centred on an intaglio vignette of Lunenburg Harbour, Nova Scotia, with three sailing vessels at anchor before the town's historic waterfront buildings. Flanking the central vignette on both sides are ornate guilloche panels incorporating the denomination in English and French — ONE HUNDRED, 100, and CENT. |
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The 1975 series marked a significant reworking of Canadian high-denomination notes, and the $100 was engraved by Charles Gordon Yorke — one of BABN's most accomplished intaglio engravers of the postwar period. The signatures of both Gerald Bouey, Governor of the Bank of Canada, and J.W. Crow, later to become Governor himself, make this a pairing that never repeated: Crow was Deputy Governor at signing and would not hold the top position until 1987.
High-face-value notes from this issue are frequently found in well-worn condition precisely because they circulated heavily before electronic transfers displaced them in commercial use.