Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | The Dominion Bank |
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| Year | 1931 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a large central vignette of a detailed map of Canada, rendered with provincial boundaries and geographic features. Ornate guilloche frames enclose denomination panels reading '100' at left and right, with the letter 'G' at the inner edges. The issuer's name 'THE DOMINION BANK' is lettered across the top, and 'ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS' appears along the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | THE DOMINION BANK ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 100 |
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The Dominion Bank was a mid-sized Toronto-chartered institution that survived the worst of the Depression years before eventually merging with the Toronto-Dominion Bank in 1955. By 1931, Canadian chartered banks were still exercising their legal right to issue their own circulating notes — a privilege that would be effectively extinguished when the Bank of Canada opened in 1935 and began absorbing private bank note circulation.
A $100 denomination in 1931 was not a note that changed hands in daily commerce. High-value chartered bank notes of this period moved primarily between businesses and financial institutions, which means genuine circulation wear is uncommon — but so is survival in any form, given systematic redemption and destruction after 1935.
The Canadian Bank Note Company held the contract for this series throughout the period.