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Banknotes of the Canadian dollar are the banknotes or bills (in common lexicon) of Canada, denominated in Canadian dollars (CAD, C$, or $ locally). Currently, they are issued in $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 denominations. All current notes are issued by the Bank of Canada, which released its first series of notes in 1935.
In January 2020, the Bank of Canada confirmed it would begin soliciting suggestions for the historic Canadian who would replace Wilfrid Laurier on the $5 note. [3] The Bank of Canada released a shortlist of candidates under consideration for the bill in November 2020 which included figures such as Pitseolak Ashoona, Won Alexander Cumyow, Terry Fox, and others. [4]
The Canadian one-hundred-dollar note is one of five banknotes of the Canadian dollar. It is the highest-valued and least-circulated of the notes since the thousand-dollar note was gradually removed from circulation starting in 2000.
In 2023, it was reported that Laurier will stay on the five-dollar bill for some time. [10] On December 16, 2024, it was announced that the image of Terry Fox would be replacing Laurier's image on the next edition of the $5 banknote, with an image of Laurier being used for the $50 note when a new design of that note is implemented. [11]
The primary impetus for the new banknotes was "the need to stay ahead of counterfeiters". [2] [3] By 2002, 10% of retailers in some parts of Canada refused to accept the $100 banknotes of the 1986 Birds of Canada series in financial transactions, [4] and by 2004, the counterfeit ratio for Canadian currency had risen to 470 parts per million (ppm). [5]
The Canadian twenty-dollar note is one of the most common banknotes of the Canadian dollar; it is the primary banknote dispensed from Canadian automated teller machines (ATMs). The newest version, the Frontier Series polymer note, was released to the general public on November 7, 2012, replacing the banknote from the Canadian Journey Series .
The Canadian ten-dollar note is one of the most common banknotes of the Canadian dollar. The current $10 note is purple, and the obverse features a portrait of Viola Desmond , a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia , in 1946.
This was the first new $1000 bill printed since the 1954 Canadian Landscape series. The banknotes were often referred to as "pinkies" because of their colour. [15] On average, a $1000 banknote remained in circulation for 13 years [15] owing to its infrequent use. It was released on 4 May 1992. [33]