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n.
a standard of exchange which served as a system of account in colonial times, being officially adopted in Lower Canada and later in Upper Canada, where York Currency had long predominated.
Quotations
1764
From the Date of the Publication hereof . . . Forty-Eight Sols Marqués shall be deemed to be equal to One Shilling Halifax; and Thirty of said Sols Marqués equal to One Shilling York Currency.
1827
Just Published, and for Sale by Edward Leslie & Sons, price 2s. 6d. C'y, Computation Tables, for reducing British Sterling to Halifax Currency (the Dollar at 4s 4d) and Halifax to Sterling, by Robert Adams.
1938
. . . from 1796 onwards the dollar was equivalent to five shillings, Halifax (i.e. four dollars were equal to a pound Halifax), whilst five livres, French money, were equal to was equivalent to one pound, three shillings and fourpence, Halifax, or twenty-eight livres, French currency.