20 Cochrane Dollars Cochrane, Alberta

The Cochrane Dollar is a local currency initiative issued to encourage spending within Cochrane's own business community — the same model used by the Calgary Dollar, the Salt Spring Dollar, and dozens of similar schemes across Canada. Notes are sold at face value in Canadian dollars and accepted by participating local merchants, theoretically keeping money circulating locally rather than draining to national chains.

Printed in Cochrane itself, which is unusual — most Canadian community currencies contract out to commercial security printers. Whether this affects counterfeit resistance is a practical question the issuer presumably weighed against cost.