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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 2001-2005 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a bilingual literary quotation in the centre, flanked by vignettes of quintessential Canadian winter scenes: children playing hockey, a child sledding, and a child learning to ice-skate with an adult. The composition is rendered in blue tones consistent with the face, with the numeral "5" appearing at each side and a print-year inscription at the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier visible when held to light; embedded metallic security thread running vertically through the note. |
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| Comments |
Czesław Słania engraved this note — a detail worth pausing on. The Polish-Swedish master was responsible for over a thousand postage stamp engravings and worked for numerous central banks, but his Canadian commissions are among his most technically demanding intaglio work. The portrait quality here reflects a craftsman at the peak of his output, well into his seventies when this series was produced.
The 2001–2005 Canadian Journey series was the first Bank of Canada issue to incorporate a holographic stripe as a primary security feature, replacing the earlier Birds of Canada series in direct response to improved counterfeiting technology detected in the late 1990s.