10 Dollars Provincial Bank of Canada

The Provincial Bank of Canada was a French-Canadian institution founded in 1900 to serve Quebec's rural and working-class communities — a deliberate counterweight to the anglophone-dominated banking establishment. By 1936, the bank was still printing its own chartered bank notes, though the Bank of Canada had been established the previous year and the federal government was actively moving to consolidate note-issuing authority. This series was among the last chartered bank issues produced before Ottawa effectively ended private bank note circulation in Canada.

The Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa handled this printing, as it did for most Canadian chartered bank issues of the period. Surviving examples in any grade are scarcer than their dominion note contemporaries, since chartered bank issues of the 1930s saw genuine circulation before being withdrawn.