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1 Dollar - Banque scolaire F.E.C. Montreal, Quebec
| Issuer | Banque Scolaire F.E.C. (Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes), Montréal |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper (light green) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette encloses a right-facing portrait bust of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, surrounded by a laurel and maple-leaf wreath. Symmetrical guilloche cartouches at left and right each bear the denomination numeral '1' over the word 'UN'. The title 'BANQUE SCOLAIRE' runs across the top in bold serif lettering, with 'UN' repeated twice at the lower margin; the entire design is printed in green. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE SCOLAIRE 1 UN |
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The Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes — the De La Salle Brothers — operated a network of Catholic schools across Quebec, and these banques scolaires notes were classroom teaching tools, not circulating currency. Students would deposit small sums and receive these printed receipts as part of a structured savings curriculum, a pedagogical practice the Brothers promoted widely through their schools in the early twentieth century. The program was designed explicitly to instill thrift habits in working-class French-Canadian children whose families had limited access to formal banking.
Printed in-house by the Montreal branch, the note reflects the order's self-sufficient institutional culture rather than any commercial print relationship.