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Weyburn Security Bank’s rare issues explored
The Weyburn Security Bank, launched in 1911 with $1 million in capital, issued $5 notes featuring a train in a city on its face (shown).
In the early 1880s, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) began bringing settlers into present-day southern Saskatchewan to farm the prairie landscape. The village of Weyburn was founded in 1899, six years before the Province of Saskatchewan entered Canadian Confederation. Earlier in the decade, the federal government divided the southern region of the North-West Territories into four... Continue reading →