5 Dollars Royal Bank of Canada

The Royal Bank of Canada was still a relatively young national institution in 1913, having only adopted that name in 1901 after relocating its head office from Halifax to Montreal. This note predates the Dominion of Canada's eventual assertion of exclusive currency-issuing authority — chartered banks continued printing their own notes legally until 1944, when the Bank of Canada monopoly was finally enforced.

American Bank Note Company's New York plant handled this series, as it did for numerous Canadian chartered bank issues of the period. ABNC's intaglio work was among the most counterfeit-resistant available to private issuers at the time, which is part of why Canadian banks kept the contract for decades.