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1 Dollar Dominion of Canada
| Issuer | Dominion of Canada |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Size | 189 × 84 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | OTTAWA JULY 2ND 1897 1 ONE The Dominion of Canada WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ONE DOLLAR AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO., OTTAWA |
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| Reverse lettering | DOMINION OF CANADA 1 ONE DOLLAR AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY OTTAWA |
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The Dominion of Canada notes occupied a peculiar constitutional space — they were issued not by a chartered bank but by the federal government itself, under authority that predated the Bank of Canada by decades. This 1897 dollar belongs to a series that was actively competing with chartered bank notes in everyday commerce, something that made the private banks quietly furious throughout the period.
The American Bank Note Company's Ottawa facility, established specifically to handle Dominion and later government printing contracts, produced this series domestically rather than routing the work through New York — a deliberate policy decision following earlier concerns about shipping security.