CANADA: New Bills

In this democratic age to engrave the head of George V on a $1,000 bill would profoundly embarrass His Majesty. Last week the King’s good friend, Canada’s rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, prepared to release from the Bank of Canada early next year a whole series of new banknotes with the following denominations, portraits:

$1,000: Sir Wilfred Laurier, “Canada’s Gladstone,” the native son and first French-Canadian Premier who for 15 years governed Canada uninterruptedly under Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George (1896-1911).

$500: Sir John Alexander MacDonald. The Glasgow Scot who roughed out the British North America Act at the Westminster Palace Hotel in London and after it passed became Canada’s first Premier, in 1867.

$100: The Duke of Gloucester.

$50: The Duke of York.

$20: The Princess Elizabeth (“Baby Betty”).

$10: The Princess Royal, Mary,

Countess of Harewood.

$5: The Prince of Wales.

$2: The Queen.

$1: The King.

Following U. S. practice, Canada’s new banknotes will be smaller than heretofore, fractionally shorter and wider than current U. S. bills.