Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Size | 190 x 92 mm |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Watermarked cotton paper with a latent pattern visible when held to light. |
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The 1935 Bank of Canada series was the institution's first issue, produced the year the Bank opened for business — Canada had no central bank until then, with chartered banks issuing their own notes. The transition was abrupt: Dominion of Canada notes and chartered bank currency were called in and replaced by this single series within a compressed window.
Two distinct English and French versions were printed for most denominations in 1935 — a political concession that was quietly abandoned in 1937 when fully bilingual notes replaced both. P#46 is the English version; the French-language counterpart is P#47.
Osborne was the Bank's first Deputy Governor; Towers its first Governor, appointed at 37.