North West livre

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a unit of Grand Portage Currency.

Quotations

1950

£ (Sterling) was worth 26 2/3 Montreal livres or 13 1/3 North West livres. £ Halifax Currency equalled 24 Montreal livres or 12 North West livres.

1955

The debit entries show that during 1813 and 1814 he sent home 682 North West Livres or just over £50 Sterling to his mother in Scotland.