10 Dollars

The Bank of Acadia was a short-lived Nova Scotia institution, and this 1872 note belongs to a period when Maritime Canadian banking was actively consolidating — many smaller regional banks issued paper only briefly before being absorbed by or losing ground to the larger chartered banks following Confederation. Whether the Bank of Acadia ever achieved meaningful circulation before closing is not well documented, which itself may explain the relative scarcity of surviving notes.

The British American Bank Note Company had established its Montreal operation only a few years prior, in 1866, making this an early commission for the firm that would go on to dominate Canadian chartered bank printing for decades.