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5 Dollars / Piastres
| Issuer | Montreal Bank |
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| Year | 1819 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1243G |
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| Signature(s) | Boffie and John Gray |
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| Variants | P#S1243G - 01.02.1819 P#S1243G - 01.03.1819 P#S1243G - 05.03.1819 P#S1243G - 11.03.1819 |
| Comments |
The Montreal Bank — later chartered and renamed the Bank of Montreal in 1822 — was operating on a provisional basis when this note was issued, having opened in 1817 without formal legislative sanction. Early notes like this one circulated under considerable public skepticism, as Upper and Lower Canada had no established framework for chartered banking, and merchants frequently questioned whether redemption on demand would actually be honored.
John Gray was a founding director and a central figure in pushing the bank's early operations forward. The dual English and French denomination wording reflects the commercial reality of Montreal's bilingual mercantile community, not a regulatory requirement.