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July 15, 2014
First Series $25 Commemorative Note
This special royal purple $25 note was issued on 6 May 1935 to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. -
July 15, 2014
First Series $20 Note
Printed by Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd., the $20 note features a portrait of 8-year-old Princess Elizabeth (granddaughter of King George V and later Queen Elizabeth II). -
July 15, 2014
First Series $10 Note
The front of the $10 note features a portrait of Princess Mary, only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. -
July 15, 2014
First Series $5 Note
The front of the $5 note features a portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales, the first son of King George V and Queen Mary. -
July 15, 2014
First Series $2 Note
The $2 note features a portrait of Queen Mary, wife of King George V. She is shown in evening dress wearing a diamond tiara and necklace. -
July 15, 2014
First Series $1 Note
The $1 note was printed by Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd. The front of the note features a portrait of King George V, who reigned from 1910 to 1936. -
July 14, 2014
Bilingual Series $1000 Note
The $1,000 note was issued several years after the rest of the 1937 series. It took on the rose tint of the 1935 $20 note but retained the portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. -
July 14, 2014
Bilingual Series $100 Note
The $100 note in this series is the same sepia tint as the 1935 $500 note, and the face features the same portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald. -
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.