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Nova Scotia decimal dollar

Nova Scotia decimal dollar: a historical unit of account.

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Nova Scotia decimal dollar: documented and qualified family connections PREDECESSORS THIS CURRENCY SUCCESSORS Canadian dollarCanadian dollar 1871 · date range · DocumentedLater contribution or absorptionNova Scotia dollars per one CanadianDocumented connection · 1871 · date range · Nova Scotia dollars per one Canadian dollar; 75 NS cents = 73 Canadian cents. Nova Scotia decimal dollarNova Scotia decimal dollar Currency history Earlier ancestry is not established here.

The story

Powell dates Nova Scotia’s decimal transition to 1860 and the 1871 alignment at 75 Nova Scotia cents for 73 Canadian cents. [1]

Section 6 applies the 75-Nova-Scotia-cent to 73-Canadian-cent conversion to covered payments from 1 July 1871, rounding fractional Canadian cents to the nearest whole cent. [2]

Sources and evidence

  1. James Powell; Bank of Canada · A History of the Canadian Dollar C162 ↗
  2. Canada; historical statutory text preserved in Aldrich papers, FRASER · Currency Act, Revised Statutes of Canada 1906, chapter 25 C313 ↗

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“Nova Scotia decimal dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000493.html

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