4 Dollars

The Bank of Acadia was a short-lived Nova Scotia institution, and this 4 Dollar note reflects the peculiar denominational habits of pre-Confederation and early post-Confederation Canadian banking, when chartered banks still issued their own paper and $4 notes filled a practical gap between the $2 and $5 — useful for wage payments in fishing and timber trades where exact amounts mattered.

The British American Bank Note Company had been established in Montreal only in 1866, consolidating engraving work that had previously gone to American firms. Getting this contract was part of their early push to dominate Canadian chartered bank printing.