10 Dollars

The Dominion Bank was chartered in 1871 and headquartered in Toronto, making it one of the smaller chartered banks operating under the Bank Act regime. Its early note issues were handled by the American Bank Note Company in New York, which supplied engraved plates to dozens of Canadian chartered banks during this period — the quality of the intaglio work was the primary deterrent to counterfeiting at a time when federal oversight of private bank note production remained relatively limited.

Surviving 1888-dated examples from this issuer are genuinely uncommon. The Dominion Bank was eventually absorbed by the Toronto-Dominion Bank upon merger in 1955, and redemption obligations on outstanding chartered bank notes had been extinguished years earlier under the 1945 Bank Act amendments.