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Matthew Patay's
Note of the Month
August 2003
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Map and flag images provided by Graphic Maps
This month's featured note
is from Canada.
The denomination is 100 Dollars and the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money
(SCWPM) Number is P-99b.
The note is dated 1988, but was placed into circulation in (1990).
(front)
The banknote is dark brown, brown and light brown on multicolored under print.
Sir Robert Borden (1854-1937), who served as Canada's wartime Prime Minister
from 1911-20, is at
center right.
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The following information
was obtained from:
WWW.FirstWorldWar.Com
Sir Robert Borden
(1854 - 1937)
Born on 26 June 1854 in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, Borden gave up his studies at age 14 to become assistant master in classical studies at the school in which he was attending. Teaching classics and mathematics in New Jersey in 1873 he returned the following year to Nova Scotia to study law, becoming articled to a Halifax law firm.
Admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1878 he gained a prominent reputation in legal circles and founded - following his marriage to Laura Bond in 1889 - his own law firm.
Borden was elected to the House of Commons in 1896 and 1890 and became leader of the Conservative party on 6 February 1901, serving in opposition for ten years until his party's election victory of 21 September 1911 on a platform of resistance to U.S. economic influence, thereby ending Sir Wilfrid Laurier's run of 15 consecutive years as his country's premier.
Prime Minister - Canada's eighth - throughout the war, Borden (who was knighted in 1914) practised a policy of complete support for the British war effort. He determinedly (and controversially) pushed conscription through parliament in 1917, leading to riots in French-speaking Quebec.
His government encountered further controversy through its support for the faulty Ross rifle (which tended to jam in battle and ultimately led to the dismissal of its chief sponsor Sam Hughes, the Minister of Militia and Defence) and there were accusations of war profiteering over the awarding of British munitions contracts.
Borden's government also introduced the first federal income tax and nationalised Canadian railways. Re-elected on 17 December 1917 Borden formed a Union coalition government comprised of Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberals.
Despite his full support for the war Borden was nevertheless insistent that Britain's self-governing dominions should be represented within Lloyd George's Imperial War Cabinet in London and at the subsequent peace conference. Consequently at Versailles Borden headed the Canadian delegation; his signature on the Versailles treaty is often deemed to herald Canada's emergence as an autonomous state.
Borden was a firm supporter of U.S. President Wilson's Fourteen Points and was clear in believing that Canada's interests lay in a close alliance between the British Empire and the United States. Borden also supported Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and was willing to provide Canadian troops to support the Russian White forces.
Finally leaving office on 10 July 1920 Borden attended the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference in 1921 as Canadian delegate and served on the League of Nations council in 1930.
He published several works including Canada in the Commonwealth (1929) and Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs (1938), edited by his nephew Henry Borden.
He died on 10 June 1937 in Ottawa at the age of 82.
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(back)
A Canadian Goose is at right center
with a flock of geese in flight at upper right.
The following information
was obtained from:
Ducks Unlimited Canada
The Canadian Goose
Habitat: Various, more often in open areas on and around wetlands of all types. Often found in cities and highly adaptable to human presence.
Range: Coast to coast in Canada and into the far north.
The spectacle of Canada geese as they honk their way across the sky in "V" formation confirms the shift in seasons. Among the first to arrive north in spring, they are among the last to leave as winter returns. Few birds form family units like Canadas. They mate for life and both parents raise the young. Populations are generally increasing, partly because of habitat restoration and partly because they adapt superbly to the presence of man - feeding on waste grain in crop lands, nesting in urban areas and grazing on lawns. All Canadas have a greyish body and a black head and neck with a distinctive white cheek patch, but there are numerous races or subspecies with substantial differences in weight and size. Smaller races are about the size of a large duck, while larger races can exceed nine kilograms with a wingspan of more than a metre.
Protecting their habitats protects them.
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