In this day and age, Canada has only five different banknotes ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100) that are currently being printed. This is because large amounts of money can be electronically transferred and small amounts, such as a $1, have been replaced by coins. Due to all of this, the twenty-five-cent bill, the one-dollar bill, the two-dollar bill, the four-dollar bill, the twenty-five-dollar bill, the five-hundred-dollar bill, and the thousand-dollar bill have been withdrawn from circulation.

The twenty-five-cent bill was issued  in 1870 by the Dominion of Canada. It was also known as a shinplaster. This bill was intended to be around for only a short time, but was reissued in 1900 and 1923 then recalled by the Bank of Canada in 1935.

The one-dollar bill stopped being printed in 1989 and was replaced with the loonie.

The two-dollar bill stopped being printed in 1996 and was replaced by the toonie. These are not seen very often in circulation anymore, although there was over 109,000,000 notes that were not returned to the Bank of Canada in 2006.

The four-dollar bill started being issued in 1871 by the Dominion of Canada. It was last issued in 1904 and was withdrawn in 1912 to be replaced with the five-dollar bill.

The twenty-five-dollar bill was issued by the Bank of Canada in 1935 to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. It was a limited release not printed in big amounts.

In 1935, the Bank of Canada issued  the five-hundred-dollar bill. It has not been printed again since.

The thousand-dollar bill stopped being printed in 2000. The demand for this bill was low and it was used for money laundering so it was withdrawn.

Starting in 1969, the fourth series of Canadian banknotes was released. This series is called the Scenes of Canada Banknote Series. The Bank of Canada printed this set of notes from 1969 to 1979 because of troubles over the amount of counterfeiting.

There were many changes to this order of banknotes colorwise to help prevent counterfeiting. On most of the bills, except the $1 bill, black ink was not used for printing. There were new colorful and curvy patterns to the bills and the series became known as the “multicoloured series”. The $1000 note was not a part of this set of banknotes. Although the bills were still bilingual, English was not always printed on the left of the bill as French was not always printed on the right as on the previous series of banknotes. Because the currency of Canada was not tradable for gold the phrase “will pay to the bearer on demand” was interchanged with the phrase “this not is legal tender”.

To greater national identity, former Canadian prime ministers were pictured on some of the bills. Queen Elizabeth II was initially supposed to be on all of the banknotes, but the Minister of Finance ordered that not all of the bills have the queen’s portrait on them.

On the reverse of the Scenes of Canada $1 bill was a sight of the parliament buildings from across the Ottawa River in Ontario.

The $2 note had an Inuit hunting picture taken in Baffin Island on the back of it.

On the front of the $5 bill was Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s picture and on the reverse was a salmon seiner boat on the Johnstone Starit in British Columbia.

Sir John A. Macdonald was on the 1971 $10 banknote and on the back of the bill an oil refinery in Sarnia, Ontario was shown.

The Rocky Mountains and Moraine Lake in Alberta are shown on the back of the $20 note.

The Scenes of Canada $50 note had William Lyon Mackenzie King on its obverse and on the reverse was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride.

The Scenes of Canada $100 Banknote has Sir Robert Borden on front and the Lunenburg Harbour, Nova Scotia.

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The current Canadian $100 bill is mostly brown in color. On the front, there is a photo of Sir Robert Borden, the coat of arms, and a photo of the East Block of the Parliament buildings. The reverse of the bill shows themes of Canadian exploration.

Security features on the front of the bill include a holographic stripe on the left side, which depicts the number 100 alternated with maple leaves, there is also a watermark of Borden’s portrait, and last, there is a broken-up number 100, which goes back together when backlit. The security feature on the reverse is a interleaved metallic strip, which has “100 CAN” along it length. The 2004 bills also have yellow dots which represent the EURion constellation and a tactile feature which similar to braille dots for the blind to identify the bill.

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