1 Dollar

The Dominion of Canada's first domestic currency series followed Confederation in 1867, but production took several years to organize. The British American Bank Note Company — established in Montreal in 1866 as a merger of American Bank Note Company's Canadian operations with British counterparts — had relocated its main facility to Ottawa by the time this series was produced, making this an early example of genuinely Canadian-printed federal paper currency rather than an import from New York or London engravers.

Pick 12 is the green-tinted variety. The series as a whole is known for inking inconsistencies across surviving examples, a consequence of the company still refining its Ottawa production processes in the early 1870s.