1 Sou Banque du Peuple - Sou of the Rebellion

The Banque du Peuple was founded in 1835 by Louis-Michel Viger and a group of Patriote-aligned investors as a direct counterweight to the anglophone-controlled Bank of Montreal. This token was struck in the charged atmosphere immediately preceding the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–38, when the Patriotes under Louis-Joseph Papineau were actively pushing economic nationalism — including organized boycotts of British goods and institutions — as a political weapon against the colonial administration.

The rebellion collapsed by late 1837, and the bank itself failed in 1838. Tokens issued this close to an armed insurrection rarely survive in quantity.