10 Dollars

The Bank of British North America was a British-chartered institution — incorporated by Royal Charter in 1836 — operating across Canadian territory long before Confederation reshaped the colonial banking order. By 1870, when this note entered circulation, Dominion status was three years old but provincial bank issues still competed freely with Dominion notes under the terms of the 1871 Bank Act. The Halifax branch designation on a note printed in New York by ABNC was entirely routine for the period; most Canadian private banks of any scale contracted American engravers rather than British ones.

The series ran until 1874, when tightening federal regulation began forcing private issuers toward standardization.