50 Dollars

The 1975 series was Canada's first wholesale shift to bilingual text across the entire note face — French and English given equal legal standing on the instrument itself, not just in accompanying documentation. The Bouey-Lawson signature combination dates this example to the latter half of that series run; Lawson replaced J.W. Crow as Deputy Governor, placing issuance between 1973 and 1984.

Gundersen's intaglio engraving for the Canadian Bank Note Company was among the finer portrait work produced domestically in that decade. The $50 denomination of this series is notably harder to find in high grade than the lower values — heavy commercial and retail use took a toll that the $100 rarely suffered.