Vancouver Island decimal dollar
Vancouver Island decimal dollar: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Its place in the family
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Vancouver Island decimal dollar
Pound sterling
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Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
The story
Vancouver Island’s 1862 act specifies dollar public accounts from 1 January 1863 and $4.85 per pound sterling. [1]
The 1867 ordinance establishes uniform dollar accounts across British Columbia, with an ordinary sovereign rating of $4.85 and a separate Crown-revenue schedule using $5 per pound. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Colony of Vancouver Island; official historical statutes · Currency Act, 1862 — Vancouver Island C309 ↗
- British Columbia; official historical statutes, pp.164–165 · Currency Ordinance, 1867, consolidated chapter 60 C311 ↗
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“Vancouver Island decimal dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000609.html