5 — Five Dollars
The artwork
Front: Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister from 1896 to 1911, engraved at right in the modern-oval frame the series favoured, his white hair and wing collar carried in fine blue line-work. At left, the Royal Arms of Canada in full colour on a pale panel. Between them the bilingual legends — CINQ 5 FIVE DOLLARS CANADA, with "CE BILLET A COURS LEGAL" and "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER" — over OTTAWA 1979 and the two signatures.
Back: A West Coast salmon seiner at work: two wooden boats riding close together in a sheltered inlet, crew hauling the purse seine in over the roller while the corks of the net trail across the water. Mountains and headlands fade behind in flat engraved tone. FIVE and a large 5 at left, 5 and CINQ at right, and the serial number repeated twice below the vignette.
In circulation
The 1979 date marks the last recasting of the Scenes of Canada five, the design having first appeared at the end of the 1960s multicoloured series. It served through the early 1980s until the Birds of Canada five, with its belted kingfisher, took over from 1986 and pushed Laurier's fishing boats out of tills.
Details
- CurrencyDollar
- DenominationFive Dollars
- Collectedon the Canada journey, 2011
- IssuerBank of Canada / Banque du Canada
- SeriesScenes of Canada, 1979 issue
- SignatureR.W. Lawson, Deputy Governor; G.K. Bouey, Governor
- SecuritySerial number moved to the back and set twice in machine-readable digits, with no letter prefix
- Dimensions152 × 70 mm