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2 Dollars
| Issuer | Banque du Peuple |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Printer | Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. |
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| Obverse description | Black on paper. Portrait of a man at left, two allegorical female figures at upper center, small vignette of a man in canoe at bottom center, and a seated allegorical male figure at right. Multiple signature varieties exist. |
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| Reverse description | Blue. Central vignette of a standing male citizen in period dress, flanked on all sides by a grid of lathe-work guilloche panels and large concentric-circle ornaments at the corners. |
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Banque du Peuple was a Montreal institution with an unusual founding philosophy — it was established in 1835 by a group of Patriote-affiliated shareholders as a deliberate alternative to the Bank of Montreal, which French-Canadian merchants regarded as an anglophone commercial monopoly. The bank's early notes were produced by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. in New York, then the dominant supplier of security printing to Canadian chartered banks, before domestic alternatives matured.
The bank collapsed in 1842, a casualty of the economic disruption that followed the failed Rebellions of 1837–38 and the subsequent suspension of the Lower Canada constitution. Notes from the 1835 issue are among the earliest in its series.