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  • July 14, 2014

    Canadian Landscape Series $10 Note

    Bank note, purple, a frame of geometric patterns, a young woman with curly hair and a pearl necklace: Queen Elizabeth II.
    All the notes in this series feature a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II based on a Yousuf Karsh photograph. On the back is a view of Mount Burgess in Yoho National Park.
  • July 14, 2014

    Canadian Landscape Series $5 Note

    Bank note, blue, a frame of geometric patterns, a young woman with curly hair and a pearl necklace: Queen Elizabeth II.
    All the notes in this series feature a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II based on a Yousuf Karsh photograph. The back of the note shows a view of Otter Falls near the Alaska Highway in the Yukon.
  • July 14, 2014

    Canadian Landscape Series $2 Note

    Bank note, pink, a frame of geometric patterns, a young woman with curly hair and a pearl necklace: Queen Elizabeth II.
    All the notes in this series feature a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II based on a Yousuf Karsh photograph. The back of this note carries an image of Richmond in the Saint-François River Valley, Quebec.
  • July 14, 2014

    Canadian Landscape Series $1 Note

    Bank note, green, a frame of geometric patterns, a young woman with curly hair and a pearl necklace: Queen Elizabeth II.
    All the notes in this series feature a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II based on a Yousuf Karsh photograph. The back of this note carries an image of the land and sky of the Saskatchewan prairie.
  • July 14, 2014

    Scenes of Canada Series $100 Note

    C. Gordon Yorke engraved the portrait of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden that appears on the front of the $100 note. C. Gordon Yorke engraved the vignette of the harbour at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, featured on the back.
  • July 14, 2014

    Scenes of Canada Series $50 Note

    The face of the $50 note features an engraving of William Lyon Mackenzie King by George Gundersen based on a Karsh portrait of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister.
  • July 14, 2014

    Scenes of Canada Series $20 Note

    The first $20 note in the series was issued in June 1970 and was printed by both Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd. and British American Bank Note Company. The face features the Gundersen engraving of the Queen.
  • July 14, 2014

    Scenes of Canada Series $10 Note

    A portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald engraved by George Gundersen appears on the front of the $10 note. The back features the Polymer Corporation in Sarnia, Ontario.
  • July 14, 2014

    Scenes of Canada Series $5 Note

    The $5 note was issued in December 1972. The portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the face of the note was engraved by C. Gordon Yorke.
  • July 14, 2014

    Scenes of Canada Series $2 Note

    Issued in August 1975 and printed by British American Bank Note Company, the $2 note features an Inuit hunting scene based on a photo taken by Doug Wilkinson at Pond Inlet on North Baffin Island.
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