10 Piastres

The Banque d'Hochelaga was a Montreal-based French-Canadian chartered bank that operated from 1874 until its merger into the Banque Canadienne Nationale in 1924. This 1911 note was produced by the American Bank Note Company's Ottawa facility — ABNC had established a Canadian operation specifically to service the chartered bank note market, which remained a private-sector affair in Canada until the Bank of Canada's founding in 1935.

The ten-piastre denomination is the French-language equivalent of ten dollars, a usage that persisted in Quebec banking well into the twentieth century despite having largely disappeared from everyday speech. Notes from this series tend to show heavy circulation wear; the Hochelaga served a working commercial clientele and its paper moved.