Image Curtsey: Bank of Canada "Playing cards would be used as currency in Canada during 1600s. In 1685, playing cards were introduced to Canada as it was a French colony. Due to slow transit times from France, playing cards were often marked with a value and signed by the governor to mark it as official currency. The card-money was in circulation as money for 70 years." The administration of New France in Canada counted on the arrival of cash from France in order to pay civil servants, suppliers, soldiers and clerks ca. 1680. There was confusion that the ship did not arrive until the end of the season, and even more if it did not come at all. In ca. 1685 Intendant Demeulle invented a type of paper money with the purpose of meeting the expenses and fill up the delay.King's consent granted, The Governors to write money face values on playing cards and affixed his seal to them (see below). When the king's ship arrived, he redeemed this "card money...
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