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100 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque d'Hochelaga |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large intaglio vignette at centre-left showing a busy harbour scene with sailing vessels, steamships, and a large industrial warehouse building, rendered in fine engraved detail. To the right, a portrait vignette of a bearded gentleman in formal attire appears within an oval frame, identified below as Président. The upper portion carries the bank title BANQUE D'HOCHELAGA in bold guilloche-framed lettering, with inscriptions noting the authorised capital, incorporation in the Province de Québec, and the issue date Montréal, le 23 Février, 1911, while the denomination CENT PIASTRES is stated in the centre panel with the note payable au porteur, à demande. |
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| Reverse lettering | PUISSANCE DU CANADA BANQUE D'HOCHELAGA 100 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, OTTAWA |
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The Banque d'Hochelaga was a Montreal-based French-Canadian institution, founded in 1874 to serve a francophone commercial community largely excluded from the Anglo-dominated Bank of Montreal and its peers. By 1911 it was a mid-sized regional bank with real ambitions — it would eventually be absorbed into what became the Banque Canadienne Nationale in 1924.
The American Bank Note Company's Ottawa plant handled much of the chartered bank printing for Canada in this period, operating under Dominion government supervision. High-denomination chartered bank notes like this 100 Piastres — the French-language designation used alongside "Dollars" on Hochelaga issues — circulated in limited numbers and were disproportionately subject to redemption and destruction, making survivors genuinely uncommon.