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The Bank of Canada (BoC; French: Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank. [4] Chartered in 1934 under the Bank of Canada Act, it is responsible for formulating Canada's monetary policy, [5] and for the promotion of a safe and sound financial system within Canada. [6]
Banking remained relatively decentralized until 1935, when the Bank of Canada was founded in response to the economic instability experienced during the Great Depression in Canada. First opened on December 5, 1980, Canada's Currency Museum is located on the ground floor of the Bank of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
The 1935 Canadian banknote series is the first series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada. They were first circulated on 11 March 1935, the same day that the Bank of Canada officially started operating. Two sets of banknotes were printed for each denomination, one in French for Quebec, and one in English for the ...
A five-dollar note issued by the Bank of Montreal in 1942, showing bank officials; one of the last bank notes issued by a chartered bank in Canada. As the Bank of Canada became established, the federal government gradually reduced the power of the chartered banks to issue their own bank notes.
The Bank of Canada Act (French: Loi sur la Banque du Canada) is a statute that sets out the governance structure and powers of the Bank of Canada, which was created in 1934 as Canada's central bank. [1] Prior to 1934, Canada had no central bank and fragmented control of the banking system.
The Bank of Montreal has been paying dividends to share holders every year since 1829 (196 years ago), [13] Scotiabank since 1833 (192 years ago), [13] Toronto-Dominion Bank since 1857 (168 years ago), [14] Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce since 1868 (157 years ago) [15] and Royal Bank of Canada since 1870 (155 years ago) [16] respectively.
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The Bank of Canada chose to design the $2 banknotes using a terracotta red called "sanguine" as its dominant colour, and also changed the colour of the $5 banknote to blue, [9] [10] the $20 banknote to olive green, the $50 banknote to orange, [12] and the $100 banknote to the same tint of sepia used for the 1935 Series $500 banknote.