3 Dollars - Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé, Quebec

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.