Did you know that Okanagan Lake was once displayed on the back of Canada鈥檚 $100 bill?
Citizens nationwide from 1954 to 1969 used a note donning a beautiful view of the Okanagan Valley looking north from the Penticton area towards Summerland and Naramata to buy some of their big-ticket items.
Bills in the Canadian Landscape Series were issued as 鈥渄evil鈥檚 face鈥� and as 鈥渕odified portrait鈥� notes, with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth appearing slightly different on each.
(Manifest Auctions)
If you look at Queen Elizabeth鈥檚 hair then you can see a shape that looks like a hook nose, bushy eyebrows and snarled lips. Initially, all 1954 banknotes were issued as devil鈥檚 face prints until the public noticed and the note was modified and re-released.
According to Manifest Auctions, the $100 devil鈥檚 face note can be worth up to $1,500.
For the series, officials at the Bank of Canada wanted to feature images of Canadian landscapes that showed little or no evidence of human activity. The final eight images were chosen from over 3,000 photographs supplied from the collections of railways, archives and news agencies
The eight featured landscapes were the Saskatchewan prairies on the $1 note, Quebec鈥檚 Saint-Fran莽ois River on the $2 note, Otter Falls in southwestern Yukon on the $5 note, Emerald Lake and Mount Burgess in Yoho National Park, B.C. on the $10 note, the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec on the $20 note, Nova Scotia鈥檚 southern shore on the $50 note and the $1,000 note showed the covered bridge in the village of L鈥橝nse-Saint-Jean, Quebec.
In today鈥檚 money, $100 is equivalent to $947.25, according to www.inflationtool.com.
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