Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF CANADA BANQUE DU CANADA WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND PAYERA AU PORTEUR SUR DEMANDE TEN DOLLARS DIX DOLLARS OTTAWA, 2ND JAN. 1937 10 BRITISH AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY LIMITED |
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| Signature(s) | 1937 - J.A. Coyne and G.F. Towers 1937 - D.A. Skelton and G.F. Towers |
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The 1937 series was the Bank of Canada's second note issue, following the inaugural 1935 bilingual and French-only releases that had caused immediate political controversy — Quebec objected to the French series being visually distinct and arguably inferior to the English. The 1937 issue resolved this by abandoning the dual-language separation entirely, placing both official languages on a single note for the first time.
Two signature combinations exist for this denomination. The Skelton/Towers pairing is notably scarcer: D.A. Skelton died in office in January 1939, limiting his signing period to roughly two years. Coyne later became Governor himself, but here appears in the junior Deputy Governor position under Towers.