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  • July 14, 2014

    Bilingual Series $50 Note

    The colour of the $50 note was changed from brown to orange, and the back features the same allegorical figure representing modern inventions that appears on the 1935 $50 note.
  • July 14, 2014

    Bilingual Series $20 Note

    Printed by Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd., the new $20 note was produced in olive green rather than rose pink. The fertility allegory from the 1935 $500 note appears on the back.
  • July 14, 2014

    Bilingual Series $10 Note

    Also printed by British American Bank Note Company, the back of the purple $10 note features the allegorical image from the 1935 $2 note, a winged Mercury representing transportation.
  • July 14, 2014

    Bilingual Series $5 Note

    The $5 note, printed by British American Bank Note Company, features the same image of electric power that appears on the back of the 1935 $5 note, but is blue rather than orange.
  • July 14, 2014

    Bilingual Series $2 Note

    The $2 note was printed by British American Bank Note Company in a new terracotta shade called “sanguine.” The back of the note carries the harvest allegory found on the back of the $10 note in the 1935 series and was engraved by Harry Dawson.
  • July 14, 2014

    Bilingual Series $1 Note

    The face of the $1 note was modified in 1938 to increase the width of the panel in which the signatures appeared by 2.4 mm, to counter earlier printing problems.
  • July 14, 2014

    Canadian Landscape Series $1000 Note

    The $1,000 note was printed by Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd. The back of the note shows the covered bridge in the village of L’Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec, and, in the background, the Saguenay River fjord.
  • July 14, 2014

    Canadian Landscape Series $100 Note

    The $100 bank note, printed by Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd., features Okanagan Lake in British Columbia on the back.
  • July 14, 2014

    Canadian Landscape Series $50 Note

    The seascape on the back of the $50 note was engraved by Warrell Alfred Hauk of American Bank Note Company from a photograph taken at Crescent Beach in Lockeport on Nova Scotia’s south shore.
  • July 14, 2014

    Canadian Landscape Series $20 Note

    The $20 note was printed by Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd. The face of the note, except for the portrait, was engraved by Andrew McMillen of American Bank Note Company.
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