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Barclays Bank (Canada) was a short-lived subsidiary, chartered in 1919 as the bank's first attempt at direct retail operations in North America rather than simply correspondent relationships. By 1956 it had been absorbed into the broader Barclays network and ceased independent Canadian chartered bank status — making its note-issuing period narrow and its surviving paper relatively uncommon.

The Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa printed for most of the chartered banks by this period, and the series follows the Dominion-era chartered bank format required under the Bank Act. J. Borden as signing president is not to be confused with Sir Robert Borden, the former Prime Minister — a conflation that occasionally surfaces in auction descriptions.