5 Dollars

The Bank of Brantford was a short-lived Ontario institution that never fully established itself before failing — making any surviving paper from its issues genuinely uncommon. The Sault Ste. Marie payability clause is the telling detail here: branches or agencies in remote northern Ontario locations were common tactics for chartered banks attempting to expand their footprint, though actual redemption at such outposts was often theoretical at best.

The American Bank Note Company in New York printed for dozens of Canadian chartered banks during this period, supplying security printing that domestic Canadian firms could not yet match in quality or anti-counterfeiting sophistication.