DCHP-3

provincial currency

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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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

1804
The Rents . . . will be . . . twenty-five shillings Provincial currency, or eight bushels of good, clean and merchanable Wheat . . . per annum. . . .
1905
It was not until 1820 that the Halifax, or Provincial currency, became at all general, private and store accounts being mostly kept in New York currency previous to that time, public and school accounts in Halifax currency.