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Obverse sides of the 2001 Canadian Journey series, depicting, top to bottom, Wilfrid Laurier, John A. Macdonald, Queen Elizabeth II, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Robert Borden

Canadian Journey is the sixth series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar designed and circulated by the Bank of Canada. It succeeded the 1986 Birds of Canada banknote series. The first banknote of the Canadian Journey series issued into circulation was the $10 bill on 17 January 2001, and the last to be issued was the $50 bill on 17 November 2004. The series was succeeded by the 2011 Frontier Series, the banknotes of which were first issued into circulation from 2011 to 2013.

This series introduced new security features and discontinued the use of planchettes, a security feature common since the earliest Canadian banknote series. All banknotes have tactile features to assist people who have visual impairments to identify the notes.

Designs on the reverse of each banknote in the series were based on themes of fundamental Canadian values and achievements. The $20 banknote was awarded 2004 Banknote of the Year by the International Bank Note Society.

Design

The Bank of Canada began the process for a banknote series to replace Birds of Canada in 1997Шаблон:Sfn by establishing a currency development team.Шаблон:Sfn It faced several constraints, including the use of a more secure substrate, addressing increased counterfeiting, improving accessibility for those with visual impairments, and ensuring a financially feasible production because of budgetary constraints.Шаблон:Sfn The Ministry of Finance was involved in the design process, providing ideas for banknote themes for the series.Шаблон:Sfn

The formal design of the banknotes began in 1998Шаблон:Sfn and was performed by a team led by art director Jorge Peral at the Canadian Bank Note Company, which also had members from the British American Bank Note Company.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The team created model designs that were reviewed by focus groups.Шаблон:Sfn The Bank of Canada had considered using portraits of famous Canadian artists and inventors, instead of those of the Queen of Canada and former prime ministers, but ultimately rejected the idea at the request of Jean Chrétien, who preferred the familiar portraits.Шаблон:Sfn

Early prototype designs included prominent portraits and vignettes of parliamentary buildings similar to those of the final design.Шаблон:Sfn The reverse of each denomination featured an animal indigenous to Canada in vertical portrait orientation. The set of themes that would ultimately be chosen had to adhere to modern banknote security design principles and "reflect fundamental values recognized and cherished across the country".Шаблон:Sfn These values included Canadian culture, diversity (for example multiculturalism), achievements, and that the concepts could be rendered artistically.Шаблон:Sfn Two elements of the design would not be changed: the portraits featured on each denomination and the dominant colour for each denomination, both of which were to be the same as those for the respective denomination in the Birds of Canada series.Шаблон:Sfn

It was the first time the Bank of Canada involved the public in the design process for a banknote series, conducting telephone surveys in 1997 to obtain public opinion about design themes and selecting individuals to participate in focus groups to review design selections.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Children throughout Canada submitted designs to the Bank of Canada via their elementary schools, and over 4,000 Canadians participated in the design process.Шаблон:Sfn

All banknotes in the series feature a stylised Flag of Canada in the upper right-hand corner of the obverse,Шаблон:Sfn and measured Шаблон:Convert.Шаблон:Sfn Each banknote also included an excerpt from literary works reflecting the denomination's theme.Шаблон:Sfn

Security

Because of the increasing proliferation of affordable consumer colour photocopiers, inkjet printers, and scanners, the security features of Birds of Canada was becoming increasingly easier to circumvent.Шаблон:Sfn As a result, the Bank of Canada undertook development of the Canadian Journey Series, during which time it also developed a new anti-counterfeiting strategy.

In addition to improving the security of the substrate and the integration of security features in the banknote designs, the Bank of Canada also launched a public education campaign, actively deterred counterfeiting by closer collaboration with law enforcement, and accelerated the removal and destruction of banknotes from older series from circulation.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Moreover, it actively discourages financial transactions using banknotes from older series.Шаблон:Sfn

Substrate

In the mid 1990s, the Bank of Canada tested a new substrate, named "Luminus"Шаблон:Sfn and produced by Domtar, for use in printing banknotes.Шаблон:Sfn It printed 100,000 experimental $5 banknotes, using the Birds of Canada design, having a substrate of polymer core between two layers of cotton paper.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The notes were issued into circulation, and the test found "no major problems" with the substrate.Шаблон:Sfn It was chosen as the substrate for the $5 and $10 banknotes in June 1998 and for all other denominations in September 1999.Шаблон:Sfn In December 1999, the manufacturer withdrew its offer to supply the substrate because of technical production issues and its market viability.Шаблон:Sfn The Bank of Canada found a cotton fibre substrate with "characteristics similar to those of Luminus" on which to print the $10 banknote it would issue in January 2001 and later for the $5 banknote issued in March 2002.Шаблон:Sfn The similarity of the substrate to Luminus would enable a transition to it once production issues were resolved, as the Bank of Canada had acquired Canada-wide rights to the substrate and continued to develop it,Шаблон:Sfn but the project was ultimately discontinued in 2002.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn As a result, the Bank of Canada chose to use the standard watermarked paper, but required suppliers to include a "windowed metallic thread" in the substrate.Шаблон:Sfn

Features

Incorporating the desired security features into the design was a "challenging aspect of the design process".Шаблон:Sfn These features included: intaglio printing, such as the raised ink in some numerals; microprinting, such as in the descriptions adjacent to the building vignettes on the obverse of each banknote; a holographic stripe adjacent to the portrait, with iridescent maple leaves shifting from a matte to shiny gold when tilted; a watermark of the portrait and denomination's value in an empty space near the building vignettes; a see-through number with disjoint components appearing as a complete numeral when viewed with background lighting; a colour-shifting thread embedded on one side of the banknote, on which is printed the banknote's denomination; and features visible when exposed to ultraviolet light.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Features implemented with raised ink on the obverse of each banknote include the large numeral at the bottom right, the shoulder of the portrait, and the words "Bank of Canada" and "Banque du Canada" in a vertical stripe to the left of the holographic metallic strip.Шаблон:Sfn A genuine banknote from this series will not fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light except for the coat of arms and the words "Bank of Canada", "Banque du Canada", "Ten", and "Dix" over the left portion of the portrait.Шаблон:Sfn Randomly distributed white security fibres embedded in the substrate will glow red.Шаблон:Sfn

When a banknote is backlit, the "ghost-like" portrait in the watermark will become visible and the colour-shifting thread is revealed as a set of windows along a continuous line that shift colour when tilted.Шаблон:Sfn The maple leaves on the holographic metallic strip appear to move when the note is tilted, and each is split by a colour change.Шаблон:Sfn

The series also excluded former security features, such as the planchettes, green dots randomly occurring on the surface of the banknotes.Шаблон:Sfn Planchettes were replaced by coloured fibres embedded in the paper that fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light.Шаблон:Sfn

Each banknote features the EURion constellation.Шаблон:Sfn On the obverse, the pattern occurs in a band between the portrait's shoulder and the signatures of the Governor of the Bank of Canada and deputy governor in the lower right of the banknote.Шаблон:Sfn All but the $50 banknote also contain several instances of the constellation on the lower portion of the building vignette at the centre of the banknote.Шаблон:Sfn On the reverse, the $5 and $10 banknotes have a visible plain yellow EURion constellation pattern. The pattern is "clearly identifiable" on the $20 and $100 banknotes, which encloses each dot of the constellation in a blank circle.Шаблон:Sfn On the $50 banknote, the pattern is nearly undetectable, as a pattern of fine red lines masks the yellow dots; these are revealed when viewing the blue channel of a digital image of the banknote.Шаблон:Sfn

Accessibility

The Bank of Canada began investigating integration of accessibility features into banknotes with the passage of the Canadian Human Rights Act in 1977.Шаблон:Sfn Its research indicated that Braille was not a viable option, as not all visually impaired individuals are able to read it, and denominations of different sizes are not financially viable.Шаблон:Sfn It thus chose to develop features that could be identified by a banknote reader, which it implemented in the Birds of Canada series.Шаблон:Sfn

For the Canadian Journey Series, the Bank of Canada and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind held consultations with "experts in the fields of vision and tactility perception",Шаблон:Sfn during which several desirable features were identified.Шаблон:Sfn The Bank of Canada concluded that accessibility features should enable an individual to identify a banknote's denomination "quickly, independently, privately, and with the note in any orientation" and that it should implement features assisting individuals with a range of vision impairments.Шаблон:Sfn It again rejected denominations having banknotes of different size for being inconsistent with the use of banknote processing equipmentШаблон:Sfn such as automated teller machines, vending machines, self checkout machines, slot machines, ticket and parking lot machines, and note sorting equipment.

This series was the first issued by the Bank of Canada to incorporate a tactile feature to allow individuals with visual impairments to determine a banknote's denomination.Шаблон:Sfn This takes the form of Braille blocks consisting of six dots arranged in two parallel columns, each denomination having a different pattern of blocks, placed on the top right-hand corner when facing the obverse. The feature was developed by the Canadian Bank Note Company, which collaborated with Queen's University tactility perception expert for symbol design.Шаблон:Sfn It produced 48 sample designs, of which six were selected for final consideration based on tactility, production techniques, and banknote thickness.Шаблон:Sfn These were tested with collaboration of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and the Canadian Council of the Blind by individuals with functional blindness.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The feature was considered appealing as it did not require individuals to use assistive technology in order to identify a banknote's denomination.Шаблон:Sfn

The colour for each banknote denomination was updated to enable individuals to more easily distinguish between them, particularly the brown of the $100 banknote and the red of the $50 banknote, along with the purple of the $10 banknote and the blue of the $5 banknote.Шаблон:Sfn The design of each denomination also included large, high-contrast numerals and a barcode, each identifying the respective denomination.Шаблон:Sfn The numerals were about 30% larger than in the Birds of Canada series and were chosen after testing conducted by vision experts at the University of Waterloo.Шаблон:Sfn

The electronic banknote reader distributed for Canadians requiring assistive technologies was also updated to be able to scan and identify these banknotes,Шаблон:Sfn and was half the size and weight than that used for the Birds of Canada series.Шаблон:Sfn It was also improved by adding tone and vibration output modes in addition to the speech synthesis voice output of the earlier model.Шаблон:Sfn Its development cost about Шаблон:Currency.Шаблон:Sfn

Approximately 3% of a banknote's production cost is associated with the tactile feature.Шаблон:Sfn

Banknotes

Value Main colour Obverse Reverse IssuedШаблон:Sfn Withdrawn
$5 Шаблон:Color box Blue Wilfrid Laurier Children playing hockey, tobogganing, and skating; excerpt from "The Hockey Sweater" by Roch Carrier 27 March 2002 15 November 2006
15 November 2006 7 November 2013
$10 Шаблон:Color box Purple John A. Macdonald Peacekeeping forces and war memorial; poppy field and excerpt from "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae 17 January 2001 18 May 2005
18 May 2005 7 November 2013
$20 Шаблон:Color box Green Elizabeth II Artwork of Bill Reid and an excerpt from Gabrielle Roy's novel The Hidden Mountain 29 September 2004 7 November 2012
$50 Шаблон:Color box Red William Lyon Mackenzie King The Famous Five and Thérèse Casgrain; quotation from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 17 November 2004 26 March 2012
$100 Шаблон:Color box Brown Robert Borden Maps of Canada and an excerpt from Miriam Waddington's poem, "Jacques Cartier in Toronto" 17 March 2004 14 November 2011

$5 note

The theme chosen for the $5 banknote was "children at play".Шаблон:Sfn The banknote was the second issued in the series and was first circulated in March 2002.Шаблон:Sfn An updated version of the $5 denomination banknote, incorporating the security features introduced in the higher-denomination banknotes of this series, was issued in November 2006.Шаблон:Sfn

The obverse has a portrait of Wilfrid Laurier, the engraving for which was created by Czesław Słania.Шаблон:Sfn The building depicted at the centre is a vignette of the West Block of Parliament Hill.Шаблон:Sfn

The reverse features a depiction of the banknote's theme, with images of children tobogganing, skating, and playing hockey on a frozen pond.Шаблон:Sfn Below a white snowflake near the middle of the banknote is an excerpt from "The Hockey Sweater" by Roch Carrier.Шаблон:Sfn It and the $10 bill were the last of the Canadian Journey banknotes to be printed, with printing ceasing in November 2013.

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$10 note

The theme chosen for the $10 banknote was "remembrance and peacekeeping".Шаблон:Sfn The banknote was the first issued in the series and was first circulated on 17 January 2001.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn An updated version of the $10 denomination banknote, incorporating the security features introduced in the higher-denomination banknotes of this series, was issued in May 2005.Шаблон:Sfn

The obverse has a portrait of John A. Macdonald, the engraving for which was created by Peral.Шаблон:Sfn The vignette at the centre is the Library of Parliament building.Шаблон:Sfn

The reverse features a depiction of the chosen theme. Standing in front of a large cenotaph in the background are a female Royal Canadian Navy officer and a male Canadian Army master corporal, and in the foreground are two children with Canadian Armed Forces veteran Robert Metcalfe observing Remembrance Day.Шаблон:Sfn[1] In the centre is a female Royal Canadian Air Force officer depicted in peacekeeping dutiesШаблон:Sfn wearing a combat uniform and blue beret. Adjacent to the officer are white doves in flight and the phrase "In the service of peace".Шаблон:Sfn In the lower left corner are red poppies superimposed on a maple leaf, beside which is an excerpt from "In Flanders Fields",Шаблон:Sfn a war poem in the form of a rondeau written by John McCrae during World War I that is now a Remembrance Day icon.Шаблон:Sfn Underneath it is an equivalent excerpt from "Au champ d'honneur", the French translation of the poem written by Jean Pariseau.Шаблон:Sfn The text of the poem was obtained from a manuscript hand-written by McCrae stored at Library and Archives Canada.Шаблон:Sfn Red poppies became a symbol of remembrance for war dead because of McCrae's poem.Шаблон:Sfn It and the $5 bill were the last of the Canadian Journey banknotes to be printed, with printing ceasing in November 2013.

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$20 note

The theme chosen for the $20 banknote was "arts and culture".Шаблон:Sfn The banknote was first circulated in September 2004.Шаблон:Sfn

The portrait's engraving on the obverse was created by Peral based on a photograph of Elizabeth II taken by Charles Green in 2000.Шаблон:Sfn The photograph was taken specifically for rendering an image on this banknote, which appears next to a vignette of the Centre Block of Parliament Hill.Шаблон:Sfn

The reverse depicts the chosen theme using illustrations of artwork created by Bill Reid, an artist of maternal Haida heritage from which he draws creative inspiration.Шаблон:Sfn To the far left is an illustration of The Raven and the First Men, a laminated yellow cedar sculpture housed at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, adjacent to which is an excerpt from the 1961 book La Montagne secrète by Gabrielle Roy and its English translation by Harry Binsse.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn To the right is a prominent illustration of the sculpture Spirit of Haida Gwaii, with a yellow-toned background depicting the ceremonial drum sculpture Haida Grizzly Bear.Шаблон:Sfn In the upper right-hand corner is an illustration depicting the sculpture Mythic Messengers, an Шаблон:Convert bronze frieze now installed at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art.Шаблон:Sfn

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$50 note

The theme chosen for the $50 banknote was "nation building".Шаблон:Sfn The banknote was first circulated in November 2004 and was the last of the Canadian Journey banknotes to be introduced.Шаблон:Sfn

The obverse portrait is of William Lyon Mackenzie King created using a computer-assisted engraving process by Giesecke & Devrient.Шаблон:Sfn The central vignette depicts the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill.Шаблон:Sfn

The reverse features an illustration of the statue of the women known as The Famous Five fronted by an illustration of the Thérèse Casgrain Volunteer Award medallion honouring Thérèse Casgrain.Шаблон:Sfn The text excerpt included on the left-hand side is a quotation from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first draft of which was composed by Canadian human rights advocate John Peters Humphrey.Шаблон:Sfn

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$100 note

The theme chosen for the $100 banknote was "exploration and innovation".Шаблон:Sfn Its design involved input from seven separate sources, among them Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, the National Archives of Canada, and the Canadian Canoe Museum.Шаблон:Sfn The banknote was first circulated on 17 March 2004.Шаблон:Sfn

On the obverse is a portrait of Robert Borden, based on a watercolour by Peral, engraved by Czesław Słania.Шаблон:Sfn The vignette at the centre is of the East Block of Parliament Hill.Шаблон:Sfn

On the reverse is a depiction of the chosen theme featuring Canadian achievements in cartography and communications.Шаблон:Sfn In the lower left-hand corner is an illustration of a birch bark canoe and a 1632 map of New France by Samuel de Champlain, above which is a quotation from the poem Jaques Cartier in Toronto by Miriam Waddington and a French translation by Christine Klein-Letaud.Шаблон:Sfn To the right is a satellite image of Canada, with an illustration of Radarsat-1 to its left and a communications antenna to its right.Шаблон:Sfn

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Printings

Canadian Journey Series banknotes differ based on the date they were printed. Other than the change to the $5 and $10 banknotes to update their security features, the most notable change is the combination of signatures of the Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Deputy Governor occurring on the banknotes, which were updated with every change to the executive of the Bank of Canada. The following signature combination banknotes were released:Шаблон:Sfn

Governor Deputy governor Years of printing Denominations
Gordon Thiessen Malcolm Knight 2001 $10 (2001)
David Dodge Malcolm Knight 2001–2003 $5 (2002), $10 (2001)
David Dodge Paul Jenkins 2003–2008 $5 (2002, 2006), $10 (2001, 2005), $20, $50, $100
Mark Carney Paul Jenkins 2008–2010 $5 (2006), $10 (2005), $20, $50, $100
Mark Carney Tiff Macklem 2010–2013 $5 (2006), $10 (2005), $20, $50, $100

Canadian Banknotes were printed by two different security printers until 2011: the Canadian Banknote Company and BA International Inc. The serial number prefix indicates which printer was responsible for printing the particular banknote.

Counterfeiting

The first two banknotes issued in the series introduced three security features new to Canadian banknotes.Шаблон:Sfn These were the hidden number to the left of the portrait, the iridescent maple leaves, and the fluorescent features (embedded fibre and images over left side of the portrait).Шаблон:Sfn These features did not deter counterfeiting.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2003, high-quality counterfeits of the $10 banknote appeared in circulation in Ontario and Quebec.Шаблон:Sfn In May 2006, Peel Regional Police in the Greater Toronto Area seized $50,000 worth of $20 and $50 counterfeit banknotes and received assistance from the Integrated Counterfeit Enforcement Teams division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to search for the production plant, which had created counterfeit banknotes with a total face value over $1,000,000.Шаблон:Sfn In the spring of 2008, a batch of counterfeit $100 appeared in the Greater Toronto Area.Шаблон:Sfn Reaching a peak distribution there in May, similar forgeries were later found in the Montreal area, with its peak distribution in June.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2004, Canada had a counterfeit ratio of 470 parts per million, which decreased to 133 parts per million by 2007.Шаблон:Sfn The banknotes in the series with the holographic metallic stripe were counterfeited by "well-organized, well-financed groups" having the resources and time to replicate the security features.Шаблон:Sfn The $5 and $10 denominations released earlier, lacking the metallic stripe and other security features, were a common target of counterfeiters.Шаблон:Sfn One of the largest counterfeit operations in Canada was discovered in Toronto, which by the time of its dismantling in 2006 had released counterfeit $10, $20, $50 and $100 banknotes with a face value over $9 million.Шаблон:Sfn The operation was also beginning production of counterfeit United States Federal Reserve Notes and traded in fraudulent payment cards and identity documents.Шаблон:Sfn

During the peak counterfeiting period in 2004, the counterfeit ratio for $10 banknotes was 1,292 parts per million, and the ratio for the $20 banknotes was 601 parts per million.Шаблон:Sfn All banknotes in this series are now considered unfit for circulation due to their lacking any modern security features, such as a metallic stripe.[2] Financial institutions must return the banknotes to the Bank of Canada, which will destroy them.[2] Individuals may keep the banknotes indefinitely.Шаблон:Sfn

Reception

The series was launched in January 2001 when the Bank of Canada issued the $10 banknote at a launch event in Ottawa.Шаблон:Sfn It also made public presentations to familiarize Canadians with the new banknotes and security features.Шаблон:Sfn The Currency Museum developed a travelling exhibition titled The Colour of Your Money that was launched on the same day.Шаблон:Sfn

Collecting

When the $10 banknote was first issued, the Bank of Canada also announced a numismatics set for notaphilists titled Lasting Impressions.Шаблон:Sfn This set contained two uncirculated $10 banknotes, one from this series and the other from the Birds of Canada series, with matching serial numbers.Шаблон:Sfn In 2002, a similar set with the same title was issued for the $5 banknote.Шаблон:Sfn Both were released in an embossed folder also containing an information booklet with the history of the respective denomination and the features of each banknote.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Legacy

In The Art and Design of Canadian Bank Notes, the Bank of Canada refers to the Canadian Journey Series as "the most distinctly Canadian series of notes ever produced by the Bank".Шаблон:Sfn It was also the first Canadian banknote series to be printed on paper sourced from a non-domestic supplier, as no Canadian company could produce the requested substrate at the time.Шаблон:Sfn

The $20 banknote was awarded the 2004 Bank Note of the Year by the International Bank Note Society, the inaugural year for the award.Шаблон:Sfn Amongst the qualities cited for the award were "probably the finest portrait of the mature monarch to appear on any bank note" and "well-balanced design, strong images, and advanced security features".Шаблон:Sfn

The accessibility features were "very well received within the blind and visually impaired community" of over 100,000 Canadians.Шаблон:Sfn A study was conducted in 2007 to assess the impact of the accessibility features in preparation for development of the next series of banknotes, the Frontier Series.Шаблон:Sfn It found that the tactile feature was most useful to those with complete of functional blindness, but it was less useful for older individuals (with decreased tactile sensitivity) and the feature could not be detected on some banknotes owing to physical wear from use.Шаблон:Sfn Some individuals would mitigate this problem by requesting only new banknotes during financial transactions.Шаблон:Sfn Numeral size and the more vivid colours on the banknotes was a more useful feature for individuals with partial vision.Шаблон:Sfn The overall impact on quality of life for visually impaired individuals was moderate.Шаблон:Sfn The only regression in accessibility compared to the Birds of Canada series was that the Canadian Journey Series banknotes could only be read from one end in the banknote reader, whereas both ends could be read in the Birds of Canada Series.Шаблон:Sfn The Bank of Canada's cost for distributing banknote readers to visually impaired Canadians is about $150,000 per year.Шаблон:Sfn

With the development and release of this series, the Bank of Canada also implemented a continuous research and development program representing a "more proactive approach" toward counterfeiting and also integrated a monitoring program to assess "confidence levels and awareness" of banknote security features.Шаблон:Sfn

When released, the $10 banknote drew complaints from Canadians who thought the excerpt from "In Flanders Field" was incorrectly quoted.Шаблон:Sfn It was based on a common misconception about the poem.Шаблон:Sfn

Some Canadians have modified the $5 banknotes by drawing over the portrait of Wilfrid Laurier to make it appear as the character Spock (as portrayed by Leonard Nimoy) from the fictional universe of Star Trek, or as the character Severus Snape (as portrayed by Alan Rickman) from the Harry Potter film series.Шаблон:Sfn

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