1 Dollar - Tommy Cooks Scarborough, Ontario

Tommy Cooks was a restaurant in Scarborough, Ontario that issued its own scrip — a practice far more common in rural or isolated communities than in a Toronto suburb, which makes this piece genuinely odd. Restaurant-issued paper was typically a meal ticket or credit token, not a denomination styled as currency, and the dollar format here suggests it was intended to circulate internally as a kind of house credit rather than as a straightforward prepayment chit.

Locally printed in Scarborough. No federal authorization, no bank backing — entirely a private commercial instrument whose legal standing under Canadian law at the time of issue would have been questionable at best.