1.000 Dollars

The Dominion of Canada $1,000 of 1925 is among the rarest high-denomination notes in Canadian paper money. These were not issued for retail commerce — they served as instruments for large-scale interbank settlements and government transfers, and very few left the vaults in any meaningful sense. The countersignature requirement added a layer of accountability that was standard for high-value Dominion issues of this period, with authorized officials signing individually before a note could be considered valid.

Surviving examples are extraordinarily scarce. Most were redeemed and destroyed as electronic clearing displaced large-denomination paper instruments through the mid-twentieth century.