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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Canada), Montreal |
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| Year | 1935 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (CANADA) 5 - FIVE DOLLARS - 5 CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, LIMITED |
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| Variants | P#S950a - Signature H. A. Stevenson and R. L. Bordon P#S950s - Signature H. A. Stevenson and A. A. Magee. Specimen |
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Barclays Bank (Canada) was a short-lived subsidiary of Barclays Bank PLC, established to serve British commercial interests in Canada. It never built a significant retail branch network and issued notes for only a brief window before Canadian banking consolidation made private chartered bank currency effectively obsolete — the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 transferred the monopoly on note issue to the new central bank, with chartered banks given a decade-long phase-out period.
This 1935 note is therefore among the last chartered bank issues in Canadian history, printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa during a transition that rendered the entire series largely redundant before it could circulate meaningfully. Surviving examples are scarce relative to other chartered bank issues precisely because so few entered active use.