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Dominion Bank was chartered under the 1871 Bank Act and opened for business in Toronto in 1871, but it took a decade before the institution had the standing — and the branch network — to justify commissioning engraved notes from the American Bank Note Company. ABNC's New York shop was the prestige choice for Canadian chartered banks in this period, and their engraved work for Dominion in 1881 was among the finer private bank productions of the decade.

Canadian chartered bank notes of this era circulated as genuine currency under federal authorization, redeemable at par. Dominion Bank itself survived until 1955, when it merged with the Bank of Toronto to form Toronto-Dominion Bank.