The 1935 Series was the first series of banknotes the Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada

The Bank of Canada is Canada's central bank and "lender of last resort". The Bank was created by an Act of Parliament on July 3, 1934 as a privately owned corporation. In 1938, the Bank became a Crown corporation belonging to the Government of Canada...

 issued.

The Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada

The Bank of Canada is Canada's central bank and "lender of last resort". The Bank was created by an Act of Parliament on July 3, 1934 as a privately owned corporation. In 1938, the Bank became a Crown corporation belonging to the Government of Canada...

 was created in 1934 and given responsibility, through an Act of Parliament, to regulate the country's money supply and to "promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada." Accordingly, it was given the exclusive right to issue bank notes in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. On 11 March 1935, the Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada

The Bank of Canada is Canada's central bank and "lender of last resort". The Bank was created by an Act of Parliament on July 3, 1934 as a privately owned corporation. In 1938, the Bank became a Crown corporation belonging to the Government of Canada...

 issued its first series of bank notes.

The first bank notes were unilingual. All denominations were available in either English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 or French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. The designs were identical, differing only in the language used. The front of the notes featured a portrait of a member of the royal family or of a former Canadian prime minister

Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...

. Allegorical figures alluding to Canada's growing agricultural, industrial, and commercial prosperity appeared on the back of each note.

Unique to the 1935 series were

• a $25 note, issued to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V
  George V of the United Kingdom
  George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
  
  
• a $500 note, a carry-over from Dominion of Canada bank notes

All bills measure 152.4 × 73.025 mm (6.0 × 2.875 inches). This is the only Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada

The Bank of Canada is Canada's central bank and "lender of last resort". The Bank was created by an Act of Parliament on July 3, 1934 as a privately owned corporation. In 1938, the Bank became a Crown corporation belonging to the Government of Canada...

 series that includes $25 and $500 bank notes.

1935 Series
Image		Value	Main Colour	Description		Date of
Obverse	Reverse			Obverse	Reverse	printing	issue
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_1f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_1b.jpg	$1	Green	King George V George V of the United Kingdom George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....	Agriculture allegory	1935	11 March 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_2f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_2b.jpg	$2	Blue	Queen Mary Mary of Teck Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....	Transportation allegory	1935	11 March 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_5f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_5b.jpg	$5	Orange	Edward, Prince of Wales Edward VIII of the United Kingdom Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay...	Electric power allegory	1935	11 March 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_10f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_10b.jpg	$10	Purple	Princess Mary	Harvest allegory	1935	11 March 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_20f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_20b.jpg	$20	Rose Pink	Princess Elizabeth	Agriculture allegory	1935	11 March 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_25f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_25b.jpg	$25	Royal purple	King George V and Queen Mary	Windsor Castle	1935	6 May 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_50f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_50b.jpg	$50	Brown	Prince Albert, Duke of York George VI of the United Kingdom George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...	Modern Inventions allegory	1935	11 March 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_100f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_100b.jpg	$100	Dark Brown	Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was a soldier and member of the British Royal Family, the third son of George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary....	Commerce and industry allegory	1935	11 March 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_500f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_500b.jpg	$500	Sepia	Sir John A. Macdonald John A. Macdonald Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, PC , QC was the first Prime Minister of Canada. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, his political career spanned almost half a century...	Fertility allegory	1935	11 March 1935
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_1000f.jpg	http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/35s/1935_1000b.jpg	$1000	Dark Green	Sir Wilfrid Laurier Wilfrid Laurier Sir Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911....	Security allegory	1935	11 March 1935