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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green and black with an intricate guilloche underprint. A central intaglio vignette presents a portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald within an oval frame, flanked by the bilingual issuer inscriptions BANK OF CANADA to the left and BANQUE DU CANADA to the right. The denomination ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS / CENT DOLLARS appears in a lower panel, with the place and date of issue OTTAWA and the promise clause WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND / PAIERA AU PORTEUR SUR DEMANDE rendered in letterpress; the numeral 100 appears in large format at each upper corner. |
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| Signature(s) | 1937 - J.A.C. Osborne 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 issue, replacing the 1935 bilingual notes that had drawn complaints for crowding both English and French text onto a single face. The solution was straightforward: a single design with language alternating by denomination and province of circulation, though the $100 was distributed nationally regardless.
Two signature combinations exist for this note. Osborne served as Deputy Governor only briefly before his death in 1938, making his pairing with Towers the scarcer of the two. Skelton, who replaced him, signed through the end of the series run.