A blue frame decorated with abstract shapes in which the `5` values are presented. Multicolour printing known as `rainbow printing`. Each banknote has a seven-digit serial number with a 2- or 3-letter prefix. The number on the left is printed in red while the number on the right is printed in blue. On the left is an illustration of the `Coat of Arms of Canada` and on the right is a portrait of Sir Henry Charles Wilfrid Laurier, statesman, Canada`s seventh Prime Minister from 1896 to 1911 and the first francophone to hold this position.
Reverse description
In the middle is a scene of salmon fishing boats in Johnstone Strait on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. To the right and left, abstract forms in which the values `5`, `FIVE` and `CINQ` are presented.
Signature(s)
Gerald Keith Bouey, Louis Rasminsky, Ruston William Lawson, Gerald Keith Bouey,
Protection type
Protection description
Obverse lettering
5 BANK OF CANADA - BANQUE DU CANADA
5
CINQ 5 FIVE
DOLLARS
CANADA
OTTAWA
1972
CE BILLET A COURS LEGAL - THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER
SOUS-GOUVERNEUR - DEPUTY GOVERNOR
GOUVERNEUR - GOVERNOR
5 5 - 5 - 5 5
Reverse lettering
FIVE - 5
5 - CINQ
BANQUE DU CANADA - BANK OF CANADA
