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...
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