Features

Location Canada 

Issuing entity Bank of Canada

Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)

Type Standard banknote

Year 1954

Value 5 Dollars (5 CAD)

Currency Canadian dollar (1858-date)

Composition Paper

Size 152 × 70 mm

Shape Rectangular

Number N# 201778 Help

References Ch GPM# BC-39, P# 78, P# 77

Obverse

English texts on the left and French texts on the right. A black and white frame decorated with abstract forms in which the values "5" and "FIVE / CINQ" are presented. On the right is a portrait of Elizabeth II, the new Queen of England and the Commonwealth. Background color of the banknote is blue.

Script: Latin

Lettering:

5 5 FIVE DOLLARS 5 - 5 CINQ DOLLAR 5 5

5 FIVE DOLLARS 5 - 5 CINQ DOLLAR 5

CANADA

FIVE DOLLARS - 5 - CINQ COLLARS

BANK OF CANADA - BANQUE DU CANADA

OTTAWA 1954

WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND - PAIERA AU PORTEUR SUR DEMANDE

DEPUTY GOVERNOR - SOUS-GOUVERNEUR

GOVERNOR - GOUVERNEUR

FIVE 5 CINQ DOLLARS 5 - 5 FIVE DOLLARS 5 CINQ

BRITISH AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY LIMITED

Reverse

In the middle is a view of the "Otter Falls" on the Aishihik River at Mile 996 on the Alaska Highway in the Yukon region. The background colour of the note is blue.

Script: Latin

Lettering:

5 FIVE DOLLARS 5 CINQ DOLLARS 5

FIVE DOLLARS - CINQ DOLLARS

5 BANK OF CANADA - BANQUE DU CANADA 5

Signatures

John Robert Beattie (JRB) Deputy Governor

Louis Rasminsky (LR²) Governor