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3 Dollars - Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé, Quebec
| Issuer | Office de Tourisme - CLD de Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 3 Dollars (3 CAD) |
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| Obverse description | The nickel clad brass centre features a relief depiction of a fishing trawler underway on choppy seas, with seagulls in flight above and a fish visible beneath the water's surface. The central design is encircled by a decorative twisted rope border separating the centre from the outer brass ring. The legend SAINTE-THÉRÈSE-DE-GASPÉ arcs along the upper portion of the outer ring, with the word ELIGI appearing at the lower right of the ring. A small engraver's mark is present at the base of the outer ring. |
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| Obverse lettering | SAINTE-THÉRÈSE-DE-GASPÉ ELIGI |
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Issued by a local tourism and economic development office rather than any federal or provincial monetary authority, this is a privately-issued trade token functioning as a regional booster currency — a practice that saw a quiet revival across rural Quebec in the late 1990s and early 2000s as small municipalities sought to encourage spending within their own borders. Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé sits on the southern Gaspé Peninsula, an area with chronic out-migration and seasonal tourism dependency.
The CLD (Centre local de développement) model was a Quebec-specific economic intervention introduced in 1998.