Canadian ten-dollar note

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Ten dollars
(Canada)
Value10 Canadian dollars
Width69.85 mm
Height152.4 mm
Security featuresHolographic stripe, watermark, EURion constellation, tactile marks, registration device, raised printing, UV printing
Material used Polymer
Years of printing2018–present
Obverse
Canadian $10 note 2018 specimen - face.jpg
Design Viola Desmond, with a map showing Halifax in the background
Designer Canadian Bank Note Company
Design date2018
Reverse
Canadian $10 note 2018 specimen - back.jpg
DesignThe Canadian Museum for Human Rights, accompanied by an eagle feather
DesignerCanadian Bank Note Company
Design date2018

The Canadian ten-dollar note is one of the most common banknotes of the Canadian dollar.

Contents

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. The background of the portrait is a colourful rendition of the street grid of Halifax, Nova Scotia, including the waterfront, Citadel and Gottingen Street, where Desmond's Studio of Beauty Culture was located. Foil features on the note face include both the Flag and Coat of Arms of Canada. This is the first Canadian banknote to feature neither a prime minister nor a royal in its solo portrait, and the first to feature a solo female Canadian other than Queen Elizabeth II. [lower-alpha 1]

The reverse features the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Part of the background pattern mirrors the museum's interior architecture and its ramps connecting multiple levels. A foil eagle feather is prominent, symbolizing ideals such as truth, power and freedom. A quotation from section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms appears in both English and French.

The foil window at the base of the note includes an iridescent rendering of the Library of Parliament's vaulted dome ceiling, which can be seen from both sides of the note.

The vertical $10 note entered circulation on November 19, 2018. [3]

SeriesMain colourObverseReverseSeries yearIssuedWithdrawn
1935 series Purple Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood Harvest allegory193511 March 1935
1937 series Purple George VI Transportation allegory193719 July 1937
Canadian Landscape Purple Elizabeth II Mount Burgess, British Columbia19549 September 1954
Scenes of Canada Purple John A. Macdonald Polymer Corporation oil refinery in Sarnia, Ontario19718 November 197127 June 1989
Birds of Canada   Purple John A. Macdonald Osprey 198927 June 198917 January 2001
Canadian Journey   Purple John A. Macdonald Peacekeeping forces and war memorial; poppy field and excerpt from "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae 200117 January 200118 May 2005
200518 May 20057 November 2013
Frontier   Purple John A. Macdonald The Canadian passenger train20137 November 2013
Commemorative issue  Purple John A. Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier, Agnes MacPhail, James Gladstone Variety of Canadian vistas20171 June 2017
2018 series   Purple Viola Desmond Canadian Museum for Human Rights 201819 November 2018

Notes

  1. Two other women members of the Canadian royal familyQueen Mary and her daughter, Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood—appeared on the 1935 Canadian banknote series. [1] [2] However, the concept of a Canadian royal family and its members being Canadian was, at the time, in its naissance, the Statute of Westminster 1931 having been enacted only four years earlier.

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References

  1. Complete Note Series > 1935: The First Series > First Series $2 Note, Bank of Canada Museum, retrieved 3 October 2023
  2. Complete Note Series > 1935: The First Series > First Series $10 Note, Bank of Canada Museum, retrieved 3 October 2023
  3. "New vertical $10 bank note featuring iconic Canadian Viola Desmond now in circulation". www.bankofcanada.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-19.

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