1 Dollar - Trois-Pistoles, Quebec

Trois-Pistoles issued this dollar as part of the wave of Canadian municipal trade dollars that proliferated through the 1980s and 1990s, produced primarily to drive local commerce during summer festivals and tourist seasons. The town's name derives from a 17th-century legend involving a sailor who lost a silver cup worth three pistoles in the St. Lawrence River — a story the municipality has traded on heavily in regional promotion. These civic pieces were struck in limited runs and redeemable locally, functioning as a genuine if narrow circulating medium during the annual festival period.