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Bank Notes

Bank note series, 1935 to present

1969-1979 Series, Scenes of Canada

$5

Front

1969-1979 $5
1972

1969-1979 $5
1979 second issue*

Back

1969-1979 $5
1972

1969-1979 $5
1979 second issue*

Issue date: 4 December 1972
Subsequent issue: 1 October 1979*
Size: 152.4 x 69.85 mm (6.0 x 2.75 inches)
Predominant colour: Blue

 

Front
Date on bank note: 1972
Date on second issue*: 1979
Signatures:

1972 issue
Left - G.K. Bouey
Right - L. Rasminsky
Left - R.W. Lawson
Right - G.K. Bouey

1979 issue
Left - R.W. Lawson
Right - G.K. Bouey
Left - J.W. Crow
Right - G.K. Bouey
Portrait: Sir Wilfrid Laurier
(Sir Wilfrid Laurier was the first French-Canadian Prime Minister and held office from 1896 to 1911. He was born in St. Lin, Quebec on 20 November 1841 and died on 17 February 1919.)
Back
Scene:

Salmon seiner
Johnstone Strait, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

*This denomination was revised in 1979. The red and blue serial numbers were removed from the face of the bank note and replaced by black serial numbers printed on the lower back of the bank note. The "Bank of Canada - Banque du Canada" inscription was removed from below the back vignette to provide a white background for the numbers.
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