Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Banque d'Hochelaga |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark red-brown, the reverse centres on a large oval cartouche enclosing the Canadian shield with multiple provincial coats of arms in a heraldic composition, surmounted by the inscription 'CANADA'. The cartouche is flanked by cornucopiae overflowing with fruit and foliage, with intricate guilloche lathe-work filling the surrounding panels. Denomination numerals '10' appear at left and right, with 'DIX' lettered beneath the central vignette and the printer's imprint at foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Banque d'Hochelaga CANADA DIX 10 Waterlow & Sons, London |
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The Banque d'Hochelaga was a Montreal-based French-Canadian institution, founded in 1874 to serve a commercial community that felt underserved by the anglophone banking establishment. By 1914 it was a mid-sized regional player — substantial enough to commission Waterlow & Sons for its notes, but still a decade away from its 1924 absorption into what became the Banque Canadienne Nationale.
Waterlow's London shop handled a significant volume of Canadian chartered bank work during this period, competing directly with the American Bank Note Company for those contracts. The ten-dollar denomination was the upper practical limit for everyday commercial transactions at the time.