25 Cents - St-Césaire General Store Saint-Césaire, Quebec

Small-denomination merchant scrip from rural Quebec was a practical workaround for the chronic shortage of low-value Dominion coinage in circulation during the late nineteenth century. General stores in communities like Saint-Césaire routinely issued their own paper tokens redeemable against future purchases, effectively tying customers to the issuing establishment while solving a genuine transactional problem.

At 52 x 20 mm, this note is closer in size to a till receipt than anything a bank would produce — almost certainly printed locally on whatever press was available, with no security features beyond the issuer's name.